Terminology

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Phoneme

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The basic unit sound

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Diphthong

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A vowel sound that is the combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one to another. E.g- ie, ou, etc

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Syllable

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Sound unit with a vowel in the centre. E.g- book has one syllable and reading has two

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Accent

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Regional variety of speech that differed from other regional varieties in terms of pronunciation

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Accommodation

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Ways that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others

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Internal phonetic alphabet

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An internally recognised system of phonetic transcription.

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Layout

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Way in which a text is physically structured

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Typographical feature

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Features of font used in texts such as bold font, fonts size, colour

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Orthographical features

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Features of the writing system such as spelling, capitalisation and punctuation

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Multimodal text

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Texts that rely on the interplay of different modes e.g images, writing and sound to help shape meaning

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Other graphical features

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Emoticons, hyperlinks and tabs

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Denotative meaning

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The literal meaning e.g if the girl was blue she would actually be blue

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Connotative meaning

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The associated meaning of a word e.g the girl is blue would mean she is sad

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Figurative language

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Language used in a non literal way in order to describe something
Metaphor
Simile

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Semantic field

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Group of words connected by a shared field of reference to describe a key topic

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Synonym

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Words that have equivalent meaning

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Passive voice

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Subject comes last and object comes first

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Aspect

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Another element of marking the time of an event by specifying if they are progressive (ongoing) or perfective (completed)

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Antonyms

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Words that have contrasting meanings

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Hyponym

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Words that can be included in a larger more general category (e.g cars bus, plane)

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Hypernym

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Words that label categories (animals- which can include dogs, cats, rabbits)

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What are the key levels of formality

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Slang
Colloquialisms
Taboo
Formal and fixed lexis

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Occupational register

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Technical vocabulary associated with a particular occupation or activity

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Sociolect

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Language style associated with a particular social group

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Dialect

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Language style associated with a particular geographical region

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Neology

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Process of new word formation

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Semantic change

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Process of words changing meaning

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Morphology

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Word formation

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Syntax

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Order structure within phrases , clauses and sentences

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Morpheme

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Smallest grammatical unit

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Free morpheme

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A morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word

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Affix

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A morpheme that cannot stand on its own but combines with other words to create a new word

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Noun phrase

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The noun and it’s focus

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Verb phrase

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Verbs plus other verbs and adverbs that don’t include subjects, as that would make it a clause

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Head word

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The central word in a phrase

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Modification

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The adding of additional words to provide more detail to the head word in a phrase either before (pre modification) or after (post modification)

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Main clause

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Grammatically complete

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Subordinate clause

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Grammatically incomplete, requires a subordinator to join with a main clause

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Active voice

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Subject comes first and object comes last

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Coordination

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Joint two or more independent clauses via co ordinating conjunctions. Single words and longer phrases can also be co-ordinated.

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Subordination

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The joint of two or more clauses where only one is independent (main) and the others are dependent (subordinate)

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Hedging

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A qualified claim through adding different types of verbs

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Interjection

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Words used to show emotion e.g- wow, ouch

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Declarative

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Statement

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Interrogative

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Questions

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Imperatives

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Commands

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Exclamatives

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Shouting

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Proper noun

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A particular being or thing e.g- London, John

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Common noun

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E.g restaurant, book, student, etc

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Concrete noun