revsion1 Flashcards
(10 cards)
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Accommodation
A
where a speaker adapts to another speaker’s accent, dialect or sociolect
2
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Adjacency pair
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a pair of utterances in a conversation that go together (greeting and a reply, question and an answer)
3
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Asymmetrical power
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a imbalance of power between participants in a speech act
4
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Comparative adjective
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eg. better, faster, darker
5
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Superlative adjective
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eg. fastest, darkest, hardest
6
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Denotation
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a literal meaning of a word
7
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Etymology
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the history of a word and the language it originates from
8
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Feral children
A
children raised without human intervention
9
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High frequency lexis
A
words that appear often in everyday speech
10
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Hypernyms
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categories of words eg. pets, sweets, vehicles
