Vocab

Question 1

prosody

Answer 1

acoustic and rhythmic elements of language

Question 2

dipthong

Answer 2

two vowels combined into the same syllable

Question 3

semantic field

Answer 3

group of words with related meaning

Question 4

denotation

Answer 4

the dictionary definition

Question 5

Hypernym

Answer 5

A broader term
Eg colour is a hypernym of red

Question 6

Hyponnyms

Answer 6

A specific term
Eg fork is a hyponym of cutlery

Question 7

Sociolect

Answer 7

Dialect of a particular social class

Question 8

Idiolect

Answer 8

Personal speech habits/ patterns

Question 9

Dialect

Answer 9

Regional language

Question 10

Neology

Answer 10

Use of a word with an already established meaning in a different way, meaning something different

Question 11

Semantic change

Answer 11

A change in the meaning of a word over time

Question 12

Morphology

Answer 12

Study of the structure of words

Question 13

Syntax

Answer 13

Arrangement of words in a sentence

Question 14

Morpheme

Answer 14

The smallest component of a word

Question 15

Head word

Answer 15

The word most essential to the meaning of a sentence

Question 16

Modification

Answer 16

A word that provides more information about another word in a sentence

Question 17

Active voice

Answer 17

When the subject of the sentence is doing the action

Question 18

Passive voice

Answer 18

When the subject of a sentence is receiving the action

Question 19

Coordination

Answer 19

Combining two ideas/ sentences of equal value

Question 20

Subordination

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Connecting two related ideas in order to show one being more important

Question 21

Sentence moods

Answer 21

Indicates the type of sentence (eg, question, command etc)

Question 22

Word classes

Answer 22

Group of words with the same behavior (eg noun, verb)

Question 23

Phoneme

Answer 23

A small consonant that distinguishes the word (eg tan, tap, tab)

Question 24

Implicature

Answer 24

Implying a meaning beyond what is literally stated

Question 25

Inference

Answer 25

A conclusion reached based off the given evidence

Question 26

Deixis

Answer 26

indications of a word

Question 27

Cooperative principles

Answer 27

assumption that participants in a conversation are speaking so that communication is successful and truthful

Question 28

Discourse structure

Answer 28

the way a text as a whole is arranged

Question 29

Discourse marker

Answer 29

a shift in communication (eg well, right then)

Question 30

Adjuncts

Answer 30

adds extra information onto the essential part of a sentence

Question 31

disjuncts

Answer 31

word or phrase that explicitly expresses someone's attitude towards the manner or content of the text or sentence

Question 32

Narrative structures

Answer 32

form used to tell a story

Question 33

Anaphoric referencing

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referring to something that already happened in a text

Question 34

Cataphoric referencing

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clues in a text that refer to something that will happen later in a text

Question 35

Intertextuality

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how texts are related to each other and provide context to the meanings behind them

Question 36

Critical discourse analysis

Answer 36

the study/ analysis of speech and texts

Question 37

Typographical features

Answer 37

use of a font to emphasise a meaning

Question 38

Orthographical features

Answer 38

conventions of a language, eg spelling and punctuation

Question 39

Multimodal texts

Answer 39

texts that communicate meaning via more than one semiotic

Question 40

Semiotics

Answer 40

study of making meaning from signs

Question 41

Audience positioning

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the relationship between the audience and the text intended by the author

Question 42

Discourse

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communication between people with a common aim or interest

Question 43

Foreground

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where something is placed in order to show significnce

Question 44

Genre

Answer 44

category of content based off a common style

Question 45

Mode

Answer 45

literary mood/ manner that is not tied to a genre

Question 46

Purpose

Answer 46

the aim/ reason of a text