English Language Paper 1 (language and the individual) quiz

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dictionary definition of a word
denotation
1 of 66
emotional associations or links attached to a word
connotation
2 of 66
using words which soften a particular concept ('friendly fire'
euphemism
3 of 66
phrase with a meaning that is not always obvious from the individual words it contains 'like a headless chicken'
idiom
4 of 66
defines relationships in terms of time/space and direction 'before' / 'underneath'
preposition
5 of 66
describes nouns 'large' 'sunny'
adjective
6 of 66
'gimme'
blending of 'give' and 'me'
7 of 66
doing words 'jump' / 'read'
verb
8 of 66
gives information about a noun 'a' / 'two' / 'his' / 'the'
determiner
9 of 66
deserves verbs 'steadily' / 'sadly'
adverb
10 of 66
replaces nouns 'you' / 'they' / 'him'
pronoun
11 of 66
connecting words 'and' / 'or' / 'but'
conjunction
12 of 66
'could' / 'would' / 'might' - suggest a not entirely secure relationship
modal verb
13 of 66
texts interwoven together - stirs readers' prior knowledge - may produce sense of intimacy/attract readers attention
intertextuality
14 of 66
refers to the study of meaning and how meaning is created within texts - also concerned with the relationship between lexical items and how these create textual cohesion
semantics
15 of 66
'please return form to myself' - think they are seeking overt prestige but not using correct grammar
hyper-correction
16 of 66
refers to the visual elements of a text; its use of shape, colour, image, space and typography
graphology
17 of 66
GASP
Genre, Audience, Subject, Purpose
18 of 66
Grice's Maxims
Quantity, Quality, Relevance, Manner
19 of 66
process of addressing mass audiences as tough they were individuals through inclusive language usage 'have a nice day'
synthetic personalisation
20 of 66
'table' - physically see/touch
common noun
21 of 66
needs capital letter - 'London'
proper noun
22 of 66
feelings etc - 'love' / 'hope'
abstract nouns
23 of 66
ownership - 'his daughter'
possessive noun
24 of 66
unit - 'family'
collective noun
25 of 66
2 nouns together to form 1 - 'school boy'
compound noun
26 of 66
living - 'cat'
animate noun
27 of 66
not alive - 'table'
inanimate noun
28 of 66
singular - 'table'
singular noun
29 of 66
more than one - 'tables'
plural noun
30 of 66
'I' / 'you' / 'she'
person pronoun
31 of 66
'my' / 'his' / 'our'
possessive pronoun
32 of 66
'myself' / 'himself' / 'themselves'
reflexive pronoun
33 of 66
'this' / 'these' / 'that'
demonstrative pronoun
34 of 66
'who' / 'whom' / 'which'
relative pronoun
35 of 66
describe actions/events - 'hit' / 'run' / 'eat'
material verb process
36 of 66
states of being/used to identify - 'be' / 'appear'
relational verb process
37 of 66
perception/thought/speech - 'think' / 'speak'
mental verb process
38 of 66
change in state over time - 'paint' / 'eat' / 'remove'
dynamic verb process
39 of 66
situation remains constant - 'love' / 'hold' / 'believe'
stative verb process
40 of 66
a word or phrase who semantic field is included within that of another word
hypernym
41 of 66
shares a type of relationship with its hypernym - 'pigeon' - 'bird'
hyponym
42 of 66
shortening of a word - 'can't'
contraction
43 of 66
describing a verb
adverb
44 of 66
describing a noun
adjective
45 of 66
the medium of communication - speech or writing
mode
46 of 66
a broad way of defining modes, which suggests that their qualities are strictly opposite - writing is formal, speech is informal
oppositional view
47 of 66
a way of representing differences by placing texts along a line showing degrees of various features
continuum view
48 of 66
a 'best-fit' example of a particular category
prototype
49 of 66
texts that combine words, images, sound and symbols to produce meaning
multimodal texts
50 of 66
any reader who actually engages with the text
actual reader
51 of 66
a constructed image of the writer a reader might have in mind
implied writer
52 of 66
the 'real' person behind the text
actual writer
53 of 66
the temporal and spatial situations in which a text is produced or received
context
54 of 66
the situation in which a text is produced and those factors which might influence its writing
context of production
55 of 66
the situation in which a text is read and those factors which might influence a readers interpretation
context of reception
56 of 66
a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting - father/dad
register
57 of 66
refers to the subject matter or content being discussed
field
58 of 66
refers to the channel of communication - writing/video-conference
mode
59 of 66
refers to the participants in a discourse, their relationship to each other, and their purposes
tenor
60 of 66
miniture version of context
pragmatics
61 of 66
words that have more than one meaning - bark/fly/pupil
polysemy
62 of 66
sounds made when thinking/when discourse is broken - 'err' / 'umm' / 'like'
filler
63 of 66
agreeing but disagreeing at the same time to avoid directness - 'kind of' / 'maybe'
hedging
64 of 66
pointing words in a perceptual, temporal or spatial dimension - spoken discourse - 'me'/ 'then' / 'tomorrow'
deixis
65 of 66
'the' - a type of determiner that refers to one specific noun rather than a group of nouns
definite article
66 of 66

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emotional associations or links attached to a word

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connotation

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using words which soften a particular concept ('friendly fire'

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phrase with a meaning that is not always obvious from the individual words it contains 'like a headless chicken'

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defines relationships in terms of time/space and direction 'before' / 'underneath'

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