English Language Key Words and Ideas Lecture 5

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Style
Casual, Formal, Reading Passage, Word List
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Markers
All speakers react to them in a more or less uniform manner
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Indicators
Show differentiation by age or social group without being subject to style shifting. Only a linguist is aware
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Stereotypes
Forms that are socially marked.
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Covert Prestige
Norm or target that is oriented to without the speaker even being aware they are doing it
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Overt Prestige
speakers are aware of and can talk about in terms of standardness, aesthetic, & moral evaluations like being ‘nicer’ or ‘better’
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Adjecency Pairs
Those involved have certain expectations and preferences
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Corpus
A collection of naturally occurring language texts, chosen to characterise a state or a variety of language
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Colligation
The grammatical company a word/phrase is associated with
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Collocation
The lexicalcompany a word/phrase keeps
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Semantic Association
The semantic seta word/phrase belongs to
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Semantic Prosody
Words/phrases can have a positive/negative prosody if they frequently co-occur with other units that have a positive or negative meaning
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Semantic Association
The semantic seta word/phrase belongs to
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Semantic Prosody
Words/phrases can have a positive/negative prosody if they frequently co-occur with other units that have a positive or negative meaning
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All speakers react to them in a more or less uniform manner

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Markers

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Show differentiation by age or social group without being subject to style shifting. Only a linguist is aware

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Card 4

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Forms that are socially marked.

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Norm or target that is oriented to without the speaker even being aware they are doing it

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