Formal features Flashcards

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Nominalisation

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abstract idea of something. Created by Turing it into a noun and removing the doer eg: The creation

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Phonological features (4)

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Consonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Rhythm and Rhyme

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Morphological / lexical features

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Compounding eg: law-enforcement
Acronyms and initialisms
Jargon

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Syntax features

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P- Paralelism, repetition of the structure
A- Antithesis, opposing clauses
L- Listing, (packaging, Layering)

Passive voice - place focus
Nominalisation- more abstract
Info flow

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Syntax (Info Flow)

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F- Front focus, fronting, inversion
E- end focus, fronting or end weight, existential sentences
C- Clefting , It or What clefts change focus

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Existential sentence

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sounds more factual and authoritative, places ‘there’ or ‘it’ as a dummy subject.

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Cohesion

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GLUE
Phonological patterning + syntactic patterning
Conjunctions
Antonymy + Synonym
Ellipsis
Repetition
Anaphoric + cataphoric referencing
Information flow
Deixis

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Coherence

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Formatting features + Layout
logical order
consistency of tense, person or semantics field
Conventions

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