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KEY TERMS FOR QUESTION 1 IN EXAM Flashcards

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blended mode

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Mix of both written and speech

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Register

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A variety of language that is associated with a particular time, place or context

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Dialect

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Variation in words/structures associated with a particular geographical region

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Sociolect

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Variation in words/structures associated with a particular social group

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Ideolect

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Variation in language use associated with a persons personalised ‘speech style’

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Pronoun

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A substitution for a noun e.g ‘we, he, she, they’

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Conjunction

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and, but, because, or

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Adverb

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A word that modifies a verb, adjective or adverb

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Determiner

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The, my, some

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Preposition

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shows place, time e.g between, on, under, during

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Proper Noun

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Names of people/places

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Abstract Noun

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Feelings e.g love, anger

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Concrete noun

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Physical existence e.g furniture, sofa

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Material Verb

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shows actions/events e.g hit, jump, build, wash

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Relational Verb

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properties or state of being e.g appear, be, seem, become

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Mental Verb

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Internal processes such as believe, wish, think

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Verbal verbs

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shout, scream, say

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comparative adjective/adverb

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e.g bigger, more carefully

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Superlative adjective/adverb

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e.g biggest, most carefully

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Personal pronoun

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e.g I, you, They

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Demonstrative pronoun

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e.g this, that, those

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Indefinite pronoun

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e.g someone, anybody, everybody, something

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Article determiners

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something is definite(the), or indefinite(a/an)

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Possessive determiners

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My, yours, her, our

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Quantifier determiners
shows either specific (one, two) on non-specific (some, few)
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Co-ordinating conjunctions
and, but, or, yet
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Sub-ordinating conjunctions
because, although, while, for
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Semantic field
group of words that fulfil the same kind of role and function in speech and writing
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Collocates
words that appear together e.g cosmetic surgery
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Synonym
Words that mean the same thing
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Antonym
words that are the exact opposite e.g death and alive
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Morphology
study of word formation
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Noun phrase
group of words built around a noun e.g 'the' television
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Verb phrase
group of words built around the head verb
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Pre-modifier
a word that goes before the head noun to add detail/clarify e.g 'expensive' television
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Qualifier
Word that adds extra detail e.g the expensive television 'in the corner'
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Post-modifier
Word that comes after the head noun to add detail or clarify
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Primary auxilary verb
an auxilary verb that joins with a main verb to show tense e.g be, do, have
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Modal auxilary verb
e.g may, could, must
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Heterophones
Words that are spelt the same but are pronounced differently and have different meanings
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Homophones
Words that are spelt differently but pronounced the same and have different meanings e.g their and there
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Dipthongs
combination of two sounds, speaker moves from one to the other e.g bait, boy, bite
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Iconic Sign
a sign or image that is the direct picture of what is represents
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Symbolic sign
a sign of image where an associated meaning is drawn from shared degree of knowledge
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Typographical features
feature related to the fonts of a text
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Multi modal text
relies on the visual/written to help shape the meaning
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Grices MAxims
Quantity- > dont say too much or too little Quality-> speak the truth Relevance-> keep what is being discussed relevant to topic Manner-> be clear and avoid ambiguity
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Goffman's positive and negative face theory
Negative Face-> a universal human need to feel independent and not imposed upon e.g 'sorry to bother you...' Positive Face -> a universal human need to feel valued and appreciated 'wow what a lovely dress'
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Person diexis
names and personal pronouns
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Spatial diexis
adverbs of place such as 'here and there' and demonstratives of location 'this and that'
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Temporal diexis
today, tomorrow, yesterday
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turn taking
the process by which speakers co-construct conversation
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Adjacency pairs
pair of words which are seen to go together such as 'how are you? good thanks'
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Filler
Err, umm, erm
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False start
when a speaker begins to speak, stops and then starts again
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Repair
speaker corrects themselves while speaking 'we was... we were going out'
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Ellipsis
The omission of words such as 'you going?'
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Speaker support
while other person speaking 'yeah' 'ahhh really?'
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Contraction
omission of letters in a word e.g 'don't' instead of do not
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Discourse marker
words/phrases that help us to organise what we say/write e.g 'so... as i was saying ...'
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Tag question
short question used at end of speech, often inviting agreement of the listener
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hedging
words that soften/weaken the force such as possibly, i think, maybe
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Declarative sentence
'I am hungry'
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Interrogative sentence
Question
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Imperative sentence
command
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Descriptive adjectives
adjectives which usually give detail about an material object
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Evaluative adjective
usually give judgement/opinion on something if its good or bad
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Initialisms
GCSE, BBC
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Acronym
Initialisms made into word e.g TARDIS
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BLEND
BROMANCE, BRUNCH

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