English Literature and Language Terminology

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Study of sounds in a language
Phonology
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Language use that is typical of a particular person
Idiolect
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Communicating feelings, ideas, emotions and opinions.
Expressive talk
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Social relationships being enacted. Politeness, degrees of formality and relative status of participants
Tenor/Tone
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Speaker committed to the truth of a proposition - words such as 'affirm', 'believe', 'conclude', 'report' used
Representatives
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Speaker tries to get a hearer to do something e.g. 'ask', 'challenge', 'command', 'request'
Directives
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Speaker committed to a certain course of action e.g. 'bet', 'guarantee', 'promise', 'swear'
Commissives
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Speaker alters the status quo by making the utterance e.g. 'I resign', 'you're nicked', 'I name this child'
Declarations
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Speaker expresses an attitude about a state of affairs e.g. 'apologise', 'deplore', 'thank', 'welcome'
Expressives
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Emphasis on a word
Stress
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Sounds - sighing, yawning, huffing, laughing, humming
Vocal effects
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Body language - shrugging, facial expressions
Paralinguistic features
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Occur because we seldom plan exactly what we're going to say in advance
Non-fluency features
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'Um', 'Ah', 'Er' - sounds for thinking time
Fillers
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Speakers does this. 'Well', 'Sort of', 'Kind of', 'Right?', 'You know?'
Hedges
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Start something, stop, change mind
False start
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Swearing to express emotion, not directed towards others
Expletive Taboo
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Swearing towards another person; derogatory; to offend
Abusive Taboo
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Swearing towards another person teasing; can convey a close relationship
Humorous Taboo
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Swearing attatched to something other than a person e.g. 'it's bloody raining'
Auxilary Taboo
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An association, idea or feeling that is conjured up
Connotation
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Group of words which are related in meaning
Semantic Field
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Techniques used to draw teh narrative together. May be achieved through events, characters or language. Related to the structure of the novel
Cohesion
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Idiolect

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Representatives

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