Key words

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  • Created on: 23-05-17 13:47
Register
the formality and tone of the text
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Lexical field
subject matter of the text, using specific words
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Multimodal
using more than one mode, e.g. text and images
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High frequency lexis
words used in everyday speech
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Low frequency lexis
words that don't often appear in everyday speech
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Prepositions
indicate the place and relationship of one thing "in,on,under,below"
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Discourse
structure of the text
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Pragmatics
social forces surrounding the text
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Phonetics
how we produce sounds
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Etymology
history and origins of words
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Polysemic
a word with more than one meaning- "set"
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Collocation
two or more words usually found together
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Denotation
Dictionary definition of the word
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Semantic field
a pattern of words with similar meanings
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Adverb
a word that modifies the verb
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Determiners
a word that determines the number or status of a noun
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Pronouns
words used in place of nouns "he,she,they"
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Conjunctions
joining words
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Proper Nouns
words of specific places or objects "Swindon"
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subject matter of the text, using specific words

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Lexical field

Card 3

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using more than one mode, e.g. text and images

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Card 4

Front

words used in everyday speech

Back

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Card 5

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words that don't often appear in everyday speech

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