metalanguage Flashcards
(22 cards)
what are the connected speech processes?
assimilation, vowel reduction, elision, insertion
what features go under phonological patterning?
aliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme
what is an bound inflectional morpheme?
alters its grammatical meaning
eg tense, person, plural ect
what are the word formation processes (morphological patterning)?
affixation, abbreviation, shortening, compounding, blending, back-formation, conversion, initialism, acronym, contraction
what are the word formation processes (lexically)?
neologism, borrowings, commonisation, nominalisation
acronym for discourse features?
DOONA
acronym for discourse strategies?
TTMC
discourse features?
discourse markers/particles
openings and closings
overlapping speech
non fluency features
adjacency pairs/minimal response
what are non fluency features?
pauses, voiced hesitations, false starts, repetition, running repairs
discourse strategies?
topic management
turn taking
management of repair sequences
code switching eg. membership and belonging
acronym for discussing tenor?
PAF
what does PAF stand for (tenor)?
power differential
affective involvement
frequency of contact
acronym for syntactic patterning?
PAL
syntactic patterning features?
parallelism
antithesis
listing
what is antithesis?
part of parallelism.
a repeating structure that reverses the meaning of the first in some way
through the use of antonymy
factors that contribute to a texts cohesion?
lexical choice eg synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms
collocation
information flow eg clefting, focus
anaphoric/cataphoric reference
deictics
repetition, ellipsis, substitution
conjunctions and adverbials
factors that contribute to a tests coherence?
cohesion
inference
logical ordering
formatting
consistency and conventions
what is the difference between cohesion and coherence?
cohesion refers to parts of texts being held together by word meaning whereas coherence is a high degree of meaning through the text as a whole eg how ideas are held together.
what is positive face?
need to be liked, respected and belong to a group
eg pronoun “we” rather than “I”
what is negative face?
social need to be free and autonomous eg would you like to… for me
semantic patterning features?
figurative language
irony
metaphor
hyperbole
pun
simile
oxymoron
personification
Coherence acronym
FLICCc
