English Language 0.0 / 5 ? English Languagekey wordsASAQA Created by: sophiebryantCreated on: 13-05-14 12:57 Lexis Vocabulary 1 of 41 Semantics Study of meanings within a text 2 of 41 Grammar Organisation of language 3 of 41 Phonology Study of sounds in a language 4 of 41 Graphology Study of visual features of a text 5 of 41 Pragmatics Study of implicit meanings (implicit- suggested not directly expressed) 6 of 41 Discourse Language of particular field 7 of 41 Idiolect Language use that is typical of a particular person 8 of 41 Phatic talk Not necessary, but polite- makes conversations run smoothly 9 of 41 Expressive talk Communicating feelings, ideas, emotions and opinions 10 of 41 Referential talk Giving information or talking about a particular topic 11 of 41 Transactional talk Interchange between at least two people with purpose of achieving a goal 12 of 41 Framing Phatic talk, e.g. 'hi how're you?', 'see you soon' 13 of 41 Initiating Starting a new topic 14 of 41 Register The relationship between the language and its context 15 of 41 Tone Politeness, degrees of formality and relative status of participants 16 of 41 Mode Spoken or written 17 of 41 Representatives Speaker commited to the truth of a situation, e.g. 'affirm', 'conclude' 18 of 41 Directives Speaker directs someone to do something 19 of 41 Expressives Speaker expresses an attitude. e.g. 'thanks', 'your welcome' 20 of 41 Intonation tone/ quality of voice 21 of 41 Prosodoic features Non-verbal aspects of speech 22 of 41 Paralinguistic features Body language shrugging, facial expressions 23 of 41 Fillers sounds for thinking time, e.g. 'ah' and 'er' 24 of 41 Back channel behaviour/ minimal responses Listener does this to encourage the speaker to continue, 'uh huh' and 'mmmm' 25 of 41 Hedges 'well', 'sort of' and 'kind off' 26 of 41 Prescriptivism Belief that one type of language is acceptable- judgemental 27 of 41 Descriptivism View that all types of language are acceptable 28 of 41 Sociolect Language that is typically used by the members of a particular social group 29 of 41 Taboo Swearing 30 of 41 Connotation An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning 31 of 41 Cohesion When lexis in a text creates a chain of meanings throughout a text 32 of 41 Concrete nouns Things which are visible- 'potato', 'house' 33 of 41 Abstract nouns Names we have for ideas, emotions, occasions and times 34 of 41 Proper nouns Names we would give to specific people and places 35 of 41 Common nouns classify things into types or general categories 36 of 41 Adjectives words that describe nouns 37 of 41 Modifiers words that describe a noun that can include adjectives, verbs and nouns themselves 38 of 41 Verbs words which express actions and states 39 of 41 Lexical a verb that gives menaing in a verb phrase, 'i am cooking' 40 of 41 Auxiliary verb that supports the main verbs, 'to be' or 'to have' 41 of 41
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