metalanguage Flashcards
(20 cards)
Jakobson’s functions - referential
conveys information/communicative
Jakobson’s functions - emotive
interprets feelings, desires (about senders feelings/attitudes)
Jakobson’s functions - conative
engages the addressee - directed at receivers
Jakobson’s functions - phatic
establishes social connections
Jakobson’s functions - metalinguistic
talks about language - shared understanding
Jakobson’s functions - poetic
brings in aesthetic dimensions (does not have to have an artistic purpose - beautiful)
Phonological features - elision
removal of sound/syllable e.g. interesting > intresting
e.g. library > libry
Phonological features - reductions
unstressed sound change
e.g. were > wa
e.g. and > nd/n
Phonological features - insertion/epenthesis
adding sounds
e.g. athlete > ath e lete
e.g. umbrella > um ber ella
Phonological features - flapping
voiceless sound to voiced
e.g. footy > foody
Phonological features - assimilation
sounds change to merge/resemble nearby sounds e.g. handbag > hambag
e.g. don’t know > dunno
Morphological features - hypocoristic suffixation/ diminutive endings
shortening + adding suffix e.g. -ie, -o, -a, -y
Ambo, Maccas, Sparkie
Morphological features - reduplication
involves rhyming patterning
e.g. school-shmool
okey-dokey
Lexical choice - swearing and expletives
links to slang but has its own social ‘rules’ (can be standard or non-standard) (exclamatory interjection) (fulfils social functions - closeness)
Lexical choice - dysphemisms
unpleasant or improper way of mentioning a taboo topic / harsh, direct, blunt
Lexical choice - taboo
socially prescribed as improper / unacceptable
Syntax - elipsis
grammatical elements omitted from a sentence e.g. do you want to come > want to come
Discourse
- informal choices link to non-standard forms of language in other subsystems
- usuallly function to decrease social distance, build rapport, group membership and friendly identity
What is the memory cue for the features of spoken discourse and what does it stand for?
DOONA
-Discourse markers/particles
- Openings/closings
- Overlapping speech
- Non-fluency features
-Adjacency pairs, minimal responses and backchanneling
What is the memory cue for strategies of spoken discourse and what does it stand for?
TTMC
- Topic management
- Turn-taking
- Management of repair sequences
- Code-switching as a marker of group membership and belonging
