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Self
An individuals separate existence from other people
Early childhood development
The physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development which takes place from birth to primary school years
Self-identity
An individuals awareness of their own unique characteristics in relation to the social groups around them.
Idiolect
The distinctive pattern of an individuals speech
Sociolect
the style of speech shared by people in a particular region or social group
Cooperative principal
The principal that speakers usually mean what they say and that hearers accept this in trying to work out the meaning
Conversational face
The image that a person has of themselves as a conversationalist
Face-threatening act
Acts or words which appear to threaten the self-esteem of a speaker in conversation
Positive politeness
Friendly strategies to make the participant feel good abut themselves
Negative politeness
Strategies intended to avoid giving offence and imposing on others by showing respect
Adversative conjunction
A connecting word which starts an idea opposing the one which has just been stated
Cognitive skills
Brain skills which are needed to perform any mental and physical task.
Concerned with mechanisms of carrying out these tasks, rather than with any knowledge.
Cognitive abilities are: Perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language and thought, visual and spatial processing
Perception
Recognition and interpretation through the senses
Memory
The storage and retrieval of information in the brain
Divided into short term and long term memory
Motor skills
The skill which changed sounds into words to be spoken
