Terminology

Question 1

Compounding

Answer 1

When two words are stuck together to make a new word

Eg. Football

Question 2

Blending

Answer 2

When two words are moulded together to make a new word

Eg. Brunch/ brexit

Question 3

Acronymisation

Answer 3

Pronouncing a set of initial letters as a word

Eg. Radar/ nasa

Question 4

Conversion

Answer 4

When a word changes from a noun to a verb

Eg. Google (noun) -> googling (verb)

Question 5

Eponym

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Object given the name of inventor

Eg. Biro

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Affixiation

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When a prefix or a suffix is added it changes the meaning of the word
Eg. Prenatal

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Initialism

Answer 7

A set of letters pronounced together

Eg. NHS / BBC

Question 8

Propernames

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When brand name of product means the same as the product

Eg. Sellotape/ McDonald’s

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Shortening

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When a bit is removed from a word

Eg. Hippo

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Prefix

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Before the word

Eg. Pre/post/un

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Suffix

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After the word

Eg. ing/ ed/ able

Question 12

Colloquial lexis

Answer 12

Slang terms

Question 13

Polysyllabic lexis

Answer 13

More than one syllable

Question 14

Monosyllabic lexis

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Only on syllable

Question 15

Taboo lexis

Answer 15

Swearing

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Formal lexis

Answer 16

Proper English

Question 17

Vulgarisms

Answer 17

Not as bad as swearing

Question 18

Disjuncts

Answer 18

Sentence adverbs that work to express attitude towards a material
Eg. Unfortunately

Question 19

Discourse markers

Answer 19

Connectives, words that bell organise what we say or write

Question 20

Anecdote

Answer 20

A personal experience

Question 21

Anaphoric reference

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When the writer refers back to something they have already said in the text

Question 22

Cataphoric reference

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Forward for something as yet unidentified

Question 23

Intertextuality

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When lexical fields from one topic are are used in a text about something else

Question 24

Lexical asymmetry

Answer 24

Calling a man a princess

Question 25

Collocation

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Two existing words put together with and /or between and make a new phrase
E.g boys and girls

Question 26

Archaic lexis

Answer 26

Old fashioned words

Question 27

Obsolete lexis

Answer 27

Words that have died out

Question 28

Euphemism

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To make something sound better in a bad situation

Eg. Passed away for dead

Question 29

Dysphism

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Saying it how it is with no filter

Eg. Saying they’re dead

Question 30

Borrowing

Answer 30

When a word from one language is used in another

Eg. Pizza

Question 31

Dialect

Answer 31

Different accents

Question 32

Connotation

Answer 32

What we associate with a word

Question 33

Denotation

Answer 33

It’s literal meaning

Question 34

Tag question

Answer 34

A question at the end of a scentence

Question 35

Lexis

Answer 35

Words

Question 36

Lexical field

Answer 36

A group of words from the same field

Question 37

Semantics

Answer 37

Meaning of words

Question 38

Representations

Answer 38

The depiction through word choices of a person, item of issue that is partially biased or stereotypical.

Question 39

Backchanneling

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Making a sound to show you’re still listening

Eg. Uh-hu

Question 40

Discourse

Answer 40

Structure of a text

Question 41

Diexis

Answer 41

You need more information for the sentence to make sense

Question 42

Paralinguistic features

Answer 42

Facial or body expression

Question 43

Ellipsis

Answer 43

When out miss our part of a sentence

Question 44

False start

Answer 44

When you re-start part of the sentence again