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The emotional and cultural responces a word generates

A word or phrase who's function is to organise discourse into segments, eg. right

Used to boost the strength of adjectives and adverbs, eg. she is REALLY pretty

To soften an imperative

A type of sentence that contains two clauses

When a regional accent gets squashed out

Someone who thinks language rules should be followed

A gossipy type of newspaper, often read by working class

The overall structure of a text

Rejecting the language patterns of the other person