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FRAMEWORKS

Define graphology

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The appearance of a text; ie layout, logos, type face, colour

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Define syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language

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Give an example of syntax

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I have a cat, rather than have a cat I

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Define morphology

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The study of words and their parts

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Define morphemes

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Morphemes, like prefixes, suffixes and base words, are defined as the smallest meaningful unit of meaning

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Define phonology

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The way a language sounds

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Define lexis

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The words used in texts or spoken data, ie the types of word

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Give an example of types of lexis

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Compound, abbreviation, acronym

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Define semantics

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The meanings of words or phrases in a language

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Define discourse structure

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A way to describe how an entire text is organised

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Define pragmatics

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Context and how having some context can change the meaning of a language

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What are the two parts of semantics?

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Denotations and connotations

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Define embodied knoweledge

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Knowledge associated with memories or physically visiting a place, varies from person to person

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Define schemas

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A cognitive framework, constantly change or get added too

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Define co-text

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Other words or phrases surrounding a word in a text

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Define deixis

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Dietic words are words that are context bound. The meaning depends on who is using them, when they are using them and who is using them.

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What is personal deixis?

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Names and personal pronouns

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What are the four types of spatial deixis?

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  • Adverbs of place
  • Demonstratives showing location
  • Orientational words
  • Dietic verbs
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What are examples of adverbs of place?

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Here, there

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Give examples of demonstratives showing location

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This, that

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Give examples of orientational words

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Left, right

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Give two examples of diectic verbs

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Come, go

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What is a proper noun?

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Refer to specific people or places

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Give three examples of proper nouns

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Paris, Venus, Andrew

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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a common noun
Types of places, people, and nouns in general
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give the three types of common nouns
- Concrete - Collect - Abstract
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What is a concrete noun?
Things which exist physically
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of concrete nouns
Computer, dog, tree
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a collect noun
Nouns which refer to groups of people or things
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of collect nouns
Audience, family
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define an abstract noun
Things which don't exist physically
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of abstract nouns
Happiness, despair, yellow
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a mass noun
Something which cannot be counted
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of mass nouns
Bread, pasta, sand
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define countable nouns
Nouns with a plural form
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a gerund noun
Verb ending in 'ing' but functions as a noun
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give an example of a gerund noun in a sentence
'Smoking' is dangerous
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What is a lexical field?
A field of just nouns
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a hypernym
A category
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a hyponym
Specific nouns
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give an example of hypernyms and hyponyms
Pets: dog, snake, rabbit
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a mononym
When someone is only referred to with one name
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of some mononyms
Dumbledore, Renaldo, Adele
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Define a metonym
A name change/ nickname
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | Give examples of some metonyms
Arsenal - the gunners
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What are the four types of personal pronoun
- I - You - She - They
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What are the four types of possessive pronoun
- My - His - Own - Their
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What are the three types of reflexive pronouns
- Myself - Himself - Themselves
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What are the four types of demonstrative pronouns
- This - That - These - Those
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NOUNS and PRONOUNS | What are the three types of reflexive pronouns?
- Who - Whom - Which
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ADJECTIVES | What do adjectives do?
Modify nouns
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ADJECTIVES | What is premodifacation?
When an adjective comes before the noun
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ADJECTIVES | What is postmodifacation?
When the adjective comes after the noun
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ADJECTIVES | Define a qualitative adjective
Gives more info about a noun or a pronouns in a way which can be graded further
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ADJECTIVES | Define a classifying adjective
Provides more information about a noun in a way that fixes it's category or class
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ADJECTIVES | Define a comparative adjective
Compares two things
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ADJECTIVES | Define a superlative adjective
Compare more than two things
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ADJECTIVES | Define a demonstrative adjective
Shows where something is near or far
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ADJECTIVES | Define a possessive adjective
Shows who something belongs to
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VERBS | What is a verb?
Actions, occurrences, or states of being
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VERBS | What is an infinite verb?
The basic form of a verb
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VERBS | What is a finite verb?
Verbs in the non basic form
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VERBS | What is tense?
The verb in a sentence tells us when something happens. Linguists agree on past, present and potentially future tense.
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VERBS | What is simple past tense?
A completed action in a time before now
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VERBS | Define simple present tense
A tense to describe actions or events happening now
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VERBS | Define auxiliary verbs
Support verbs to convey future happenings, like will, want, and would
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CONTINUOUS and PERFECT ASPECTS | Define the continuous aspect
Actions that continue for a period of time
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CONTINUOUS and PERFECT ASPECTS | Define the perfect aspect
Actions that are completed
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CONTINUOUS and PERFECT ASPECTS | What is the past perfect continuous?
Something which was continued but is now completed
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CONTINUOUS and PERFECT ASPECTS | What is the present perfect continuous?
Something continued up to now
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CONTINUOUS and PERFECT ASPECTS | What is the future perfect continuous?
Something which is expected to end in the future
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MODALITY | What is modality?
The encoding of different degrees of subjective response in a text
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MODALITY | What are the six modal verbs?
Can, may, must, will, shall, should
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ACTIVE and PASSIVE | What is the active voice?
Subject, action, object
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ACTIVE and PASSIVE | What is the effect of active voice?
Creates a strong, direct and clear tone
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ACTIVE and PASSIVE | Define passive voice structure
Object, verb, subject
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SENTENCE TYPES AND FUNCTIONS | Define a minor sentence
Often miss a main verb or subject
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SENTENCE TYPES AND FUNCTIONS | Define a simple sentence
A sentence with an independent main clause which contains a subject and a verb
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SENTENCE TYPES AND FUNCTIONS | Define a compound sentence
Sentences with two or more independent main clauses which are joined by a conjunction or semi colon
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SENTENCE TYPES AND FUNCTIONS | Define a complex sentence
Sentences which consist of independent main clause plus a subordinate

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