General Terminology

Question 1

Anthropomorphism

Answer 1

Personification but with animals instead

Question 2

Idiolect

Answer 2

Speech habits of an individual e.g. Job, education, social class, places you live, media, friends, family, gender

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Sociolect

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Language used by a group of people e.g. Family, friends

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Convergence and divergence

Answer 4

Convergence- to mirror the listener

Divergence- to put distance between the listener and speaker

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Received Pronunciation

Answer 5

Upper class stereotype- Queen

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Mode

Answer 6

Method of communication- written, spoken, multimodal

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Field

Answer 7

Subject matter- specialist and non specialist terminology

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Function

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The purpose- to inform etc

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Audience

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Relationship between speaker and listener, reader and writer

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Register

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Language used for a particular purpose in a particular social context

Question 11

Subject specific lexis

Answer 11

Words referring to a specific subject e.g. Food

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Vulgarism

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Language which falls short of taboo but is rather coarse and not used in polite society

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Slang

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Refers to individual language of certain regions

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Non standard dialect

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Words and grammatical constructions not convinced to be ‘good’ English

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Collliquilism

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Loose term which literally means ‘language as it is spoken’

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Standard English

Answer 16

Formal English- term used for vocabulary and grammatical constructions generally accepted as correct

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Referential

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Refers without context

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Expressive

Answer 18

‘Wow!’

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Transactional

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Asking for a purpose’ where is the post office etc’

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Interactional

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‘I haven’t spoken to you in ages!’

Question 21

Phatic

Answer 21

Small talk