General Terminology

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Concrete Noun
e.g. Tree, boat, car, pig
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Abstract Noun
e.g. Glory, hope, fear, love
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Proper Noun
e.g. France, london, hannah, peter
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Adjective
e.g. Happy, sad, beautiful, long
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Adverb
e.g. Quickly, slowly, stupidly, expertly
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Modal verb
e.g. Could, should, would, must
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Auxiliary verb
e.g. Be, have, can, do
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Pronoun
e.g. I, you, he, she
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Determiner
e.g. That, two, the
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Article
The, a
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Phonology
sounds of a language
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Lexis
Words of a language
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Semantics
Meaning of words
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Grammar
structure of a language
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Pragmatics
politeness, humour, implicature, inference
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Discourse
The way in which langauge is communicated in light of the audience
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Mode
Spoken or written
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Genre
Type of text
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Function
What a text is for
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Field
What a text is about
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Accomodation
changing your language to fit with others
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Phoneme
smallest unit of sound
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Morpheme
smallest unit of grammar
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Accent
The way we talk
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Dialect
The regional words we use
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Audience
Who a text is for
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Declarative
Statement
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Hypernyms and Hyponyms
Categories of words and specific examples
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Clause
a group of words centred around a verb, which may be either grammatically complete (main clause) or incomplete (subordinate clause)
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Imperative
a command
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Colloquial
Slang/conversational language
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Negative face
please may I borrow some money
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Formality
register we speak in depending on situation
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Interrogative
Question
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Coordinating conjunction
FANBOYS
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Diexis
that, those, these, there
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Positive face
lend us a fiver
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Context
who, what, when, where, why
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Fricative
f v s z sh dz h
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Contraction
don't, can't, won't
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Paralinguistics
hand gestures etc
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Child directed speech
how parents speak to children
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Plosive
p b t d k g
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Consonant
b c d f g h j k etc
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Vowel
a e i o u
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Content word
nouns, adjectives etc
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Function word
pronoun, proposition etc
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Preposition
in, on, at, to, for etc
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Dummy auxiliary
do
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Dynamic verb
kick, run, fight
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Stative verb
feel, love, like
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Expansion
exoanding a child's utterance
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Idiom
e.g. pulling your leg
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Non-standard
not in the stnadard form
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Virtuous Error
an easily understandable error that a child makes
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Recast
correcting a child's utterance
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Possessive
Hannah's
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Plural
Cats
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Past Tense
Walked
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Bilabial
both lips together
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Card 2

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e.g. Glory, hope, fear, love

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Abstract Noun

Card 3

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e.g. France, london, hannah, peter

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Card 4

Front

e.g. Happy, sad, beautiful, long

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Card 5

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e.g. Quickly, slowly, stupidly, expertly

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