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A01 Key terms Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Superlative

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Prefix “est” is used to denote the highest form.

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Interrogative sentence

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A question

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Declarative sentence

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A statement

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Imperative sentence

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A demand

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Hypophora

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A rhetorical question which is immediately answered.

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Asyndetic listing

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A list without any conjunctions.

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Syndetic listing

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A list with a conjunction.

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Dynamic verb

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An action eg. run, sleep, walk

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Stative verb

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A thought process eg. thinking, dreaming, contemplating.

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Types of clauses -

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Main, Subordinate, Embedded
Main - Can stand on its own.
Subordinate - Can’t stand on its own.
Embedded Clause/ Parentheses - [ ]

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Figurative language

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Language used in a non-literal way in order to describe something in another’s terms eg. simile or metaphor.

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Hypernyms

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Words that label categories eg. animals

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Hyponyms

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Words that can be included in a more general category eg. rabbit and dog in the hypernym animal.

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Levels of formality

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Vocabulary styles eg. slang, colloquialisms, taboo, formal and fixed levels.

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Occupational register

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A technical vocabulary associated with a particular occupation/activity.

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Sociolect

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A language style associated with a particular social group.

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Semantic change

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The process of words changing meaning eg. narrowing, broadening, amelioration, pejoration, semantic reclamation.
Narrowing - The meaning of a word becomes less general/inclusive than its earlier meaning.
Broadening - Becomes broader or more inclusive than its earlier meaning.
Reclamation - An oppressed group redefines a slur and how it has been used against them.
Pejoration - The meaning of a word gets worse.
Amelioration - The meaning of a word improves.

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Morpheme

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The smallest grammatical unit.

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Free morpheme

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A morpheme that can stand on its own as a word.

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Bound morpheme

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A morpheme that cannot stand on its own as a word, but combines with others to create a new word.

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Head word

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The central word in a phrase which gives the phrase its name eg. noun phrase, adjective phrase and may be modified.

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Active voice

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A clause where the doer of an action is the subject.

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Passive voice

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A clause where the person is affected by an action.

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Aspect

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

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Coordination

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The joining of two or more independent clauses via coordinating conjunctions.

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Subordination

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The joining of two or more clauses, where only one is independent and the others dependent.

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Implicature

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An implied meaning that has to be inferred as a result of a conversational maxim being broken.

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Irony

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Using language to signal an attitude other than what has been literally expressed.

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Adverbials

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Typically express place, time and manner.

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Adjuncts

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Non essential elements of clauses that can be omitted. eg. “I’ll see you in the morning”.

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Disjuncts

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Sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follows eg. “Sadly, not one of them survived.”

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Anaphoric reference

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Making reference back to something previously established in a text. eg. “The woman stood by the door.” “She made notes of what she could see.”

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Cataphoric reference

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Making reference forwards to something which is as yet unidentified in a text eg. “It was warm. It was living. It was a rabbit.”

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Exophoric reference

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Making reference to things beyond the language of the text itself eg. “Look at that”

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Intertextuality

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The use of discourses from one field as part of another.

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CDA

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The use of linguistic analysis to explore and challenge the ideologies, positions and values of texts and producers.

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Typography

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The features of fonts used in text eg. font type, font size, font colour.

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Orthography

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The features of the writing system eg. spelling, capitalisation, punctuation.

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Multimodality

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Texts that rely on the interplay of different modes eg. images, writing, sound.

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Register

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A variety of language/level of formality that is associated with a particular field of reference eg. occupational discourse.

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