Definitions

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Abstract noun

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An idea or concept that only exists in the mind

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Accent

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The distinct pronunciation patterns of a group of people

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Acronomy

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Abbreviation using the first letter of a group of words pronounced as a single word

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Active voice

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Clause construction where the subject is also the actor

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Adjacency pair

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A pair of utterances in a conversation that go together

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Adjective

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A word that modifies a noun

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Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb telling you how, where or when the action takes place. It can also modify adjectives

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Adverbial

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Part of a clause or sentence which identifies where, when, how by modifying the verb

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Affordance

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Linguistic and behavioural choices provided by tehcnology

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Agenda setting

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When the speaker sets up the main topic of conversation

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Analogical overextension

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Associating objects which are unrelated but have one or more features in common

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Anchored relationship

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An online relationship where two participants know each other in the offline world

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Article

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A determiner such as ‘a’ and ‘the’

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Asymmetrical power

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An imbalance of power between people

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Asynchronous conversation

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A conversation in which there is a delay between utterances

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Audience

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The person or people reading or hearing the text

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Auxiliary verb

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Assists the main verb

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Avatar

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An image used by a user that accompanies a username

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Back channelling

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Supportive terms such as ‘oh’ and ‘really’

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Bald on-record

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When a speaker is completely blunt and direct

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Bias

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A form of prejudice in favor of, or against an idea, person or group. It can take obvious or implicit forms

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Bidialectalism

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A speakers ability to use two or more dialects of the same language

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Categorical overextension

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The most commonly occurring form of overextension. Relates to confusing a hypernym with a hyponym.

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Catenative

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Chain-like structure in a sentence (so we… then we… and we…)

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Chaining

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A speaker responds and sets up the other speaker’s next utterance in a chain that runs on past an adjacency pair

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CDS

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Child Directed Speech

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Closer

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Phrase used to end a conversation

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Codification

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The process of standardising a language

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Cohesion

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The many parts of a text which link together to make it a recognisable whole. For example, a news article will have a headline, picture and caption that are all about the same topic

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Collocation

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One or more words which are commonly used together (eg fish and chips)

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Comparative adjective

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Eg bigger, taller

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Complement

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A clause element that tells you more about the subject or object

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Complex sentence

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Two or more clauses, at least one is a subordinate clause

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Compound word

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A word formed of two or more other words

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Compound sentence

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Two or more main clauses

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Compound-complex sentence

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Three or more clauses, at least one subordinate and coordinate clause

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Concrete noun

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A physical object

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Conditioning

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The process in which we are taught to respond to certain stimuli

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Conjunction

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A word that joins clauses together

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Connotation

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The associated meaning of a word

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Consonant cluster

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A group of consonants pronounced next to each other (eg string)

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Constraints

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Linguistic snd behavioural restrictions caused by technology

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Context

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Where, when and how a text was produced

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Convergence

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When a speaker changes their language use to more closely match another person’s

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Cooing

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Baby noises

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Coordinate clause

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A clause beginning with a coordinating conjunction

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Coordinating conjunction

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Conjunction at the start of a clause

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Copular verb

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Eg “is”, “seems” “are”

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Corpus

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A collection of written texts

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Covert prestige

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Gaining social class through the use of non-standard forms