Text Analysis Introduction

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  • Created on: 25-11-18 21:22
text
a unified piece of speech or writing
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text meaning
what a text means overall
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levels of language
linguists divide language into relatively discrete layers or sub-topics so that these can be understood and studied separately
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connotations
the overtones associated with a word or a phrase
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alliteration
repeated phonemes at the beginning of words
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colloquial
an informal style of the kind used in ordinary speech
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contraction
omission of a letter in a word, often replaced by an apostrophe
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Card 2

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what a text means overall

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text meaning

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linguists divide language into relatively discrete layers or sub-topics so that these can be understood and studied separately

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Card 4

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the overtones associated with a word or a phrase

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Card 5

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repeated phonemes at the beginning of words

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