English Lit Lang Vocab

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Use of vocab and grammar associated with a specific region or social group
Dialect
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Ritualistic social conventions of parallel expressions
Adjacency pairs
2 of 42
Words, phrases and non-verbal utterances used to give feedback and show the message is followed
Back channel features
3 of 42
Referring to something outside the text e.g. 'this' or 'there' (verbal pointing)
Deixis
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Directing the conversation - verbal signposts e.g. 'first' or 'so anyway'
Discourse marker
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Omission or slurring of sounds
Elision
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Omission of part of a grammatical structure
Ellipsis
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Starting an utterance, then stopping and repeating or reformulating
Self repair/false start
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Items that don't carry meaning but are inserted to allow time to think
Fillers
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Words that soften a phrase e.g. 'maybe'
Hedges
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Conversation for interpersonal reasons/ socialising
Interactional
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Features that interrupt the flow of talk
Non fluency
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Overlapping speech
Latched talk
13 of 42
Body language and other non verbal elements that add meaning
Paralinguistics
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Small talk - has no concrete purpose other than establish relationship
Phatic talk
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Context and purpose of talk
Pragmatics
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Stress, rhythm, pitch and tempo
Prosodic features
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String of words added to a declarative to turn it into a question
Tag question
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Talk to get things done
Transactional
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Unit of talk
Utterance
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Answering your own question
Hypophora
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Humour created by anticlimax
Bathos
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Sounds such as 'b' 'p' or 'k' made by stopping the lips
Plosives
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Opposite but balanced words
Antithesis
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Juxtaposition
Contrasting two things
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Repetition of consonant sounds in words
Assonance
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Exaggeration
Hyperbole
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Every day informal language or slang
Colloquialism
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Sounds of words
Phonology
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The way a text appears/is presented
Graphology
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F sounds
Frictives
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How formal or informal the language is
Register
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Conventions of a situation
Schema
33 of 42
Sadness created
Pathos
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Short, swift exchanges increasing pace
Stichomythia
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Where the plot is unravelled and all is revealed
Denouement
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Characters who embody their names e.g. Lucky (sarcastically if WFG)
Aptronym
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Using the wrong word that sounds similar to the correct one
Malapropism
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Release of emotion/tension
Catharsis
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Humour created by pride before a downfall
Hubris
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S sounds
Sibilance
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Person controlling the conversation
Gatekeeper
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Card 2

Front

Ritualistic social conventions of parallel expressions

Back

Adjacency pairs

Card 3

Front

Words, phrases and non-verbal utterances used to give feedback and show the message is followed

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Referring to something outside the text e.g. 'this' or 'there' (verbal pointing)

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Directing the conversation - verbal signposts e.g. 'first' or 'so anyway'

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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