english language AS

deals with genral english language, language and power and language and gender

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What are the 5 types of power?
Political, Legal ,Education (which is a power structure) ,Business (which is a power structure),Personal (which is a power structure)
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Give three ways to exert power in conversation?
Initiating a conversation, Imperative sentences, Topic changing
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How can jargon be used to assert power
it excludes people from the conversation as many may not understand it
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What are Fairclough’s 3 parts of advertising?
building a relationship, using cognitive and cultral models, building a consumer
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What are members resources?
It’s the background knowledge and information the reader uses to interpret texts
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Who is the powerful participant?
the person with the most power in a conversation in a certain context
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What are constraints?
Ways in which powerful participants may block or control the contributions of less powerful participants
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What is formulation?
The rewording by another contribution by a powerful participant to impose a certain meaning or understanding.
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Is this ‘variety of pronunciation peculiar to people who live in a particular geographical region’ the definition of:
regional accent
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Intonation, pitch stress loudness pace pauses and vocal effects are all part of what?
phonology
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in the following selection of common nouns identify three concrete
wall table sock
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in the following selection of common nouns identify three abstract nouns:
love purity disgust
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in the following selection of common nouns identify three collective nouns:
family government team
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43. Is this “variety of English distinguished by its own characteristics features of vocabulary and grammar spoken in a particular geographical region” the definition of a:
regional dialect
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is The use of proper grammar and pronunciation not slang
standard english
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A....... is often a rhetorical question put at the end of a sentence such as its raining isn’t it?
tag question
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is Two or more people all talking at the same time a
overlap
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Give an example of alliteration?
silly sizzeling sausages
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What kind of noun is table?
concrete
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What type of noun is love?
abstract
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What type of noun is herd?
collective
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what type of noun is jump
its not a noun
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is "lexis, phonology, graphology, pragmatics, discourse, grammar, semantics"
the frameworks
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What is positive face?
the need to feel liked and appreciated
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what is negative face
the need for freedom and choice
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Who tends to seek overt prestige?
women
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give one reason why women use more prestigious language?
they are less secure
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Who said that women use fewer expletives?
robin lakoff
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Who according to Lakoff use more intensifiers?
women
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Give an example of hedging?
kinda sorta maybe
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Do men or women use more tag questions?
women
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22. Is this ‘variety of pronunciation used by a small number of people throughout the British isles who constitute a social elite’ the definition of a
recieved prononciation
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What term describes this phrase as sly as a fox?
similie
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Give an example of onomatopoeia?
buzz
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What kind of pronoun is he she they?
personal
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What type of pronoun is myself yourselves?
reflective
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What type of pronoun is his theirs my?
possesive
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What term describes a question that doesn’t require an answer?
Rhetorical question
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What type of noun is Danielle?
proper noun
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Written spoken mixed are all examples of what
mode
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Running jumping writing are all examples of
dynamic verbs
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what term describes words like kids?
slang
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What is the difference between lexis and semantics?
lexis is the words you use and your vocab where as semantics is the meaning of words
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54. Is this ‘the linguistic system of an individual speaker’ the definition of a
ideolect
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what is this the meaning of: "things that show our language can be seen as sexist such as the use of mankind to encompase men and women of the human species"
androcentric language
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the literal meaning of the word or phrase is the
denotation
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the non literal meaning such as blue can be used to mean sad or unhappy instead of just meaning the colour blue
conotation
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How formal or informal a piece of written or spoken text is. is the definition of
register
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guna is an example of an
elision
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22. What term describes the word or phrase that indicated a change in the topic or a return to an earlier topic?
discourse marker
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Two or more words that sound the same but have different meanings such as would and wood is the meaning of which word
homophone
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ben dibb-fuller

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just awful (press alt + f4 to get away from this shi**)

Charles

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I refreshed the page so, naturally, I have now apparently got the new record time. Pretty proud of that, but I think I could do better. 

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