Language Levels

Question 1

Discourse

Answer 1

Verbal/Written communication or debate (e.g. aggressive voices on social media).

Question 2

Pragmatics

Answer 2

A branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as deixis (dependent on the context in which it is used), the taking turns in conversation, text organisation, presupposition, and implication.

Question 3

Grammar

Answer 3

System/Structure of a language (e.g. noun, verb).

Question 4

Syntax

Answer 4

The arrangement of words/phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language (e.g. She loves him).

Question 5

Morphology

Answer 5

Study of the forms of things/words (walk-ed).

Question 6

Lexis

Answer 6

The total stock of words in a language.

Question 7

Semantics

Answer 7

The branch of linguistics/logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such a sense, reference, presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.

Question 8

Phonology

Answer 8

The branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.