microscope

Question 1

active voice

Answer 1

subject performs verb e.g. the dog chased the ball

Question 2

affordance

Answer 2

advantages provided by technology

Question 3

asynchronous

Answer 3

when there is a delay between utterance and response e.g. someone replies to a tweet a month after it was posted

Question 4

bald on record

Answer 4

speaker is blunt and direct

Question 5

catenative

Answer 5

chain like structure e.g. we did this…then this… then this

Question 6

collocation

Answer 6

two words often found together e.g. fish and chips, over the top

Question 7

compound

Answer 7

word forms of two words put together e.g. dustbin

Question 8

constraints

Answer 8

limitations provided by technology

Question 9

covert prestige

Answer 9

describes high social status through use of non standard forms

Question 10

exophoric reference

Answer 10

reference to something, often cultural, beyond the text

Question 11

flouting a maxim

Answer 11

not obeying Grice’s conversational maxims

Question 12

illocutionary act

Answer 12

implying something in what we say

Question 13

left branching sentence