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What is lexis?

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Our choice of words

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What is a high and low lexical intensity?

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High lexical intensity-Emotional words like ‘horrific,stormed’
Low lexical intensity- Neutral words that lack emotion like ‘nice,bad’

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What is semantics?

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The meaning of words

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What is denoting and connoting in relation to semantics?

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Denoting- literal meaning
Connoting- associated meaning

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What is phonology and what techniques are linked to it?

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The sound of words- alliteration, assonance and repitition

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What is vocabulary linked to grammar?

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Sentence moods, types, parellism- repetition of same grammatical form

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What is syntax?

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How a sentence is formed- active voice/passive voice

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What are aspects of graphology?

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Layout elements like headings and fonts

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What are pragmatics?

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The who, what, why, when, how a text was produced. The reader’s situation and expectations

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What is the Speech Act Theory and who developed it?

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Austin- using language while also performing an action

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What is the Speech Act Categorisation and who developed it?

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Searle- the achieved meanings like assertive, declaratory, directive and expressive points

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What is the Face Theory and who developed it?

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Goffman- face is the concept of self image and how we present ourselves through language

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What is a positive and negative face?

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Positive face- desire to be liked
Negative face- desire to protect personal rights

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What are face threatening acts?

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Insults, ridicule, belittling, questioning, leading questions

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Who created the Politeness Theory and what does it?

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Brown and Levinson- How to protect your face, face threatening acts

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What are Grice’s maxims?

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Quality, quantity, relevance and manner

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What does it mean to flout a maxim?

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Ignore

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What does it mean to violate a maxim?

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Using it wrongfully without someone knowing like telling a lie

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What is an adjacency pair?

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A moment in turn taking where one utterance controls the response in some way like a question leading to an answer

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What is back channelling?

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The process of giving feedback through encouragement like noises or positive comments when someone is speaking

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What are binomial expressions?

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Sayings that are naturally pairs like ‘sit and listen’

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What is code switching?

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The ability of a speaker to alter the register or clarity of their speech to fit a social situation

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What are conversational cues?

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Paralinguistic and verbal signals that indicate turn taking should take place, a conversation is due to end or begin

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What is conversational implicature?

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A statement has an intended effect other than surface meaning like stating its cold, intending for someone to shut the window

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What are conversational offers?
A declarative that functions to begin a conversation which requires shared knowledge on the experience like stating 'I saw that film last night' to someone who they discussed it with previously
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What is a conversational request?
Interrogative that requires an open response
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What is a conversational question?
Interrogative that requires a closed response like yes or no
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What is convergence?
Adopting forms of another speaker
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What is elaborated code?
Bernstein defined it as an individual bringing their speech to that of Standard English to make it more understandable to a wider audience
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What is elision?
Leaving out a vowel or syllable in the pronunciation of a word
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What are glottal stops?
The leaving out of dental sounds in the middle of pronunciating words
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What are hesitation indicators?
Moments in discourse that indicate the speaker is playing for time, shown through fillers when thinking of what to say like 'um, ahh, err'
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What is idiolect?
The speech patterns of an individual
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What is interrupted construction?
Breakdown of an utterance where the speaker will change focus or topic mid way
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What is intonation?
The rise and fall of an individuals speaking voice
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What are latch ons?
When a speaker takes their turn immediately after the speaker before has finished leaving no or little pause
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What are non-fluency features?
Any feature that indicates the speaker is not speaking with fluency like stammering
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What are overlaps?
When one speaker talks over the other
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What are paralinguistic features?
Communication via body language, facial expressions, laughter
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What is phatic communication?
Small talk
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What are prosodic features?
Sound effects of spoken language like intonation, pitch and stress
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What is regional accent and dialect?
Accent- manner of pronunciation particular to that region Dialect- the actual words used and the spoken grammar which is particular to that region
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What is restricted code?
Bernstein defined it as a code of speaking where an individual could only be understood by a limited amount of people like social group or regional area
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What is running repair?
The process of socially organising a conversation if two people are talking at the same time/ simultaneously
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What is sociolect?
The vocabulary and spoken grammar particular to a certain social group
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What is solidarity?
Hynes- pragmatic element of the level of intimacy and proximity between speakers
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What is the Speech Act Theory?
An utterance on its own is meaningless without an element of contextual or pragmatic agenda
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What are the three elements of the Speech Act Theory?
Locutionary Act- saying something with a semantic meaning in a traditional sense Illocutionary Act- performance of an act in saying something. The illocutionary force is the speakers intent like to warn, to inform, to command Perlocutionary Act- speech acts that have an effect on the feelings, thoughts or actions of a speaker or listener like persuading, inspiring
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What are the five illocutionary and perlocutionary points?
Serle outlined the five as- 1)Assertives- statements that aim to describe a state of affairs to be judged as true or false 2)Directives- statements to make another persons actions fit the content of the utterance 3)Commissives- statements that commit the speaker to a course or action 4)Expressives- statements that express the sincerity condition of the speech act 5)Declaratives- statements that attempt to change the world by representing it as having been changed
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What is spontaneous spoken discourse?
When speech has inconsistencies, breaks and lapses
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What is Spoonerism?
Spooner outlined it as the phenomenon in spoken language where initial consonants are accidentally swapped
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What is stress?
The emphasis placed on certain words through volume or silence beforehand
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What is a tag question?
A question tagged onto the end of a statement like 'It's cold, isn't it?'
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What is a tonic syllable?
The syllable that carries the most stress
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What is a topic marker?
An utterance that establishes the topic of a conversation
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What is a topic shifter?
An utterance that moves a conversation on to another topic
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What is turn taking?
Co-ordinated and rule governed co-operation between two or more participants of a conversation
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What is a vocative?
A direct reference to another speaker in discourse

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