Metalanguage covered Flashcards
(42 cards)
Phonological features
Elision
reductions
insertion
flapping
assimilation
Morphological patterning
Hypocoristic suffixation
Reduplication
Lexical choice and semantics
slang
Syntax
Elipsis- grammatical elements omitted
Politeness
shows concern for both positive and negative face needs
Face
Is one’s public self-image and identity
one’s sense of dignity
one’s sense of prestige/ status
Openings
Ritualistic and expected
Greetings
Protocols/scripted
adjacency pairs
Greetings structures form adjacency pairs
two/3 part exchanges
-question and answer/response
-offer and refusal/ acceptance
-statement and acknowledgment
Turn-taking
Passing the floor
taking the floor
topic management
discourse markers
pauses
interrogatives, declaratives, imperatives
NP, fragments
topic loops (getting back to what was being said before)
Talking about spontaneity
Discuss non-fluency features
pauses
repetition
false start
running repair
fillers/voiced hesitations
Backchanneling
minimal response
listening sounds
idioms
non-literal, often metaphors or similies, common creative expressions, cultural associations
Verb form of
ellipsis
ellipted
verb form of
elision
elided
What is Elision
phonemes being removed
reductions
Unstressed sounds change
insertion
adding sounds
flapping
is voicing mid-voiceless sounds
assimilation
sounds change or merge to resemble nearby sounds
The use of informal language
-encouraging intimacy, solidarity, and equality
-politeness strategies
-promoting linguistic innovation
-promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos, and building rapport
supporting in-group membership
phonological patterning
alliteration
assonance
consonance
onomatopoeia
rhythm and rhyme
I
first person, singular subject pronoun
Me
first person, singular object pronoun