Terminology

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Phonology

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the linguistic study of speech sounds and manual units and how they change depending on their contexts eg. rhyme, alliteration

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Abstract noun

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A noun not visible or physically present eg love, death, fear

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Prosody/Prosodic features

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Patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry
Stress implied on certain words

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Pronoun

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A way to address someone
> Personal ‘I’ ‘me’
Collective ‘we’ ‘us’ ‘they’

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Semantics

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Meaning of a word

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Adjective

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Describing word
>Pre modifying
> Post modifying

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Verb

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A doing word eg. run, pondered, screeched

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Adverb

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Describes verb/ ‘ly’ words
Can be pre/post modifying asw!

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Pragmatics

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The study of lang, how we communicate in certain contexts and cultures
eg.How are you?- implies greeting, not an acc q.
What time do you call this?-implies lateness

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Simile

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A word/ phrase to compare two things to each other eg ‘shine like a diamond’

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Metaphor

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A phrase that has a hidden meaning to connote something else
eg ‘two storey building…runs between the L&N tracks and the river.’

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Alliteration

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When multiple words in conjunction w each other begin w same letter
eg monkey marcus

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Discourse

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Written/ spoken communication, usually a debate

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Three main sentence types

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Simple
Compound
Complex

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Four main sentence moods

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Indicative, imperative, subjunctive, infinitive

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Minor sentence

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Incomplete sentence that still makes sense w/o the missing info

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Personification

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Providing human qualities for inanimate objects

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Assonance

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repitition of vowels w/o repitition of consonants

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Proper noun

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Name of people, places

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Onomatopoeia

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a word phonetically imitating its spelling eg oink, meow

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated lexis eg hungry enough to eat a horse

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Euphemism

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A milder phrase that connotes a blunter meaning eg sexual innuendo, expletives

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Antithesis

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When something is the opposite of something else

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Imagery

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Visual
Olfactory
Gustatory
Thermal
Tactile

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Adjacency pairs

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Utterances of two speakers, one after the other

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Back channelling

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Feedback given when someone else is talking to show interest eg mhm, yeah, right

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Elision

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Omission of a sound/syllable when speaking eg i dont know > i dunno

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Ellipsis

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Punctuation suggesting a cliffhanger, open ended
DOT DOT DOT

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Filler

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Used in spoken lang to show apprehension/ give more thinking time eg maybe, perchance, erm,well

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Hedges

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Spoken lang; expresses abiguity & may be used to gain thinking time eg um err

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Phatic talk

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Small talk/ social communication to establish social relationships/ maintain them

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Tag question

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A short phrase with ‘isn’t it?’ added to the end to gain an opinion

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Vocative

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Politeness associated w adress/ formal address eg sir madam

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Idiolect

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Speech habits associated with a particular person

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Accent

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A lilt to someones vernacular thats indicative of their geographical placement, social class etc

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Dialect

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form of lang associated w specific geographical region

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Contraction

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Shortening of phrases- could have to could’ve

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Rhetorical interogative

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A question asked without an intention of an answer from the reciever

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words ina specific order

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Suprasegmental features

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Speech features eg tone, rhythm,volume, pitch, intonation

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Standard English

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accepted written/spoken lang, can be spoken with an accent but must just be grammatically correct engliish

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Cohesion

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words following a coherent pattern