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when the pronoun refers back to the referent eg. Tom walks into the room.
Anaphoric referencing
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an idea or feeling a word evokes in addition to it's literal or primary meaning
Connotation
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A word or phrase that is informal
Colloquialism
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the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word, often side by side.
Collocation
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Changing one's language in order to move towards another individuals
Convergence
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a group of people who share an understanding
Community of practice
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pronoun refers forwards to the referent eg. he walked into the room.
Cataphoric referencing
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How a text is ordered - what comes first
Discourse structure
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the assimilation, mixture and/or eradication of certain dialects, often due to language standardisation, geographical relocation or media influence
Dialect levelling
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The assumption that women's language is lacking or decifient
Defecit model
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Changing one's language to move away from another individuals
Divergence
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The number of connections people have
Density
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The dispersal of people (and their languages) to different parts of the world
Dispora
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Idea that middle class speakers use context free, complex forms of language
Elaborated code
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language thought to be characteristic of a particular ethnic group
Ethnolect
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Language used within a family
Familylect
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The appearence/layout of a text
Graphology
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langauge thought to be disctinctive of men and women
Genderlect
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an expression not meant literally
Idiom
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language belonging to a particular trade or group
jargon
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a fancy word for words
Lexis
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words assosiated with a particular topic
Lexical field
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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Metaphor
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number of ways two people might relate to eachother
Multiplexity
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Opperating on a large scale
Macro level
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Opperating on a small scale
Micro level
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A text which tells a story
Narrative
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How a word sounds
Phonology
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'Reading between the lines' - any implications/assumptions
Pragmatics
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Negetive reaction to a particular types of accents and dialcts (fake, rascist....)
Prescriptive attitudes
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Making a value judgement
Prescriptivism
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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
Simile
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The meaning behind a text and or image
Semantics
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Proscibed by society as being impropper or unacceptable
Taboo lexis
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When the 'th' sound in words such as 'three' is pronouns as 'f' as in 'free'
Th fronting
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Singular of lexis
Lexeme
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Unit of meaning
Morpheme
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Visual unit
Grapheme
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Spoken unit
Phoneme
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Name the sentence: The human brain never stops working until you stand up to speak in public
Complex
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Name the sentence: I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Compound
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Name the sentence: Curiosity killed the cat
Simple
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Name the sentence: Yes, indeed
Minor
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comes from not indentifying with the institutionalised standard
covert prestige
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pronouncing an /r/ after a vowel where there is an /r/ in the spelling eg. cart, farm, sir
Post vocalic /r/
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relations between people and their membership of different groups
Social Network
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Ways in which we habitually behave
Social Practices
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Unspoken rules that operate in interjections between people who share common understading
Pragmatic rules
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The idea that working class use context based basic forms of language
Restricted code
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Quanity, Quality, Relevence, Manner
Grice's Maxims
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Which is an anacronym
SCUBA
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Which is an initialism
BRB
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Speech style identified with a professional group/amature activity goup
Occupational dialect
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Guess the theorist: gender overides status in the workplace
Woods
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Guess the theorist: women are more likely to mitigate criticism than men
Tannen
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Guess the theorist: Masculin characterists make a more successful manager
Holmes
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Guess the theorist: in traditionally male dominated sphere's of work women tend to adopt masculin speech styles
Litosselin
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Guess the theorist: lanaguage change happens due to expression, economy, or analogy
Deutscher
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Name the theory: The idea that language change is not a logical and ordered proccess
Random fluctuation theory
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Name the theory: A model of language change that likens it to throwing a stone into a pond, with the ripples caused representing language change as as spreding from a central point
Wave model
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A liberated suffix or one that has been taken from its origional context and applied to new situations. Considered a creation of it's time.
Libfix
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a person's need to not be imposed upon
negetive face
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our need to be liked by others
positive face
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What are these examples of: thanking, not interupting, complimenting, listening
positive politeness
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What are these examples of: apologising, asking permission, showing defense
negetive politeness
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When you have to disagree with someone or give them negetive feedback
face threatening act
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The role of English as a bridging language in interactions where it is not everyone's first language
lingua franca
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the idea that English is a world wide language
global english
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a trade language, usually not the language of either speakers
Pidgin
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Which word did we get from Hindi (Indian Dialect)
Avatar
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Which word did we get from the Carribean
Hurricane
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Which word did we get from aborigional Australian
Cooee
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The idea that men's language is of retaining dominance and women's language is of subordination
Dominance model
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Men and women have manly similar styles of speech. Adopted for different contexts. Gnder ideas are social and cultural.
Proformativity
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Men and women's speech is like cross-cultural communication, it's different. Women are co-operative, men are competetive
Difference
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an idea or feeling a word evokes in addition to it's literal or primary meaning

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Connotation

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A word or phrase that is informal

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the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word, often side by side.

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Changing one's language in order to move towards another individuals

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