Lexis - The vocabulary system; meaning at word and phrase level
Semantics - Meaning and how it is generated
Grammar - The structural realtionships within and between sentences and utterances
Phonology - The sounds of words, how they are pronouced and how they are described, including elements of prosody (stress on syllables)
Pragmatics - The ways in which social conventions and implied meanings are encoded in spoken and written discourse
Discourse - Longer stretches of text, looking particuarly at aspects of cohesion (ii) the way texts create identities for particular individuals, groups or instituitions, e.g. the discourse of law; the discourse of media
Graphology - Language as semiotic system that creates meaning through textual design, signs and images
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