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Maxim of quantity

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Do not say too much or too little. e.g you wouldn’t say “My poodle, which is a dog, is having pups.”

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Maxim of quality

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Be genuine and sincere.

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Maxim of relevance

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Your contributions should somehow relate to the purpose of the conversation.

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Maxim of manner

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Contributions should be orderly, brief and avoid obscurity and ambiguity.

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Ambiguity

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Uncertainty of meaning or intention.

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Maxim

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A general truth or principle.

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Social Proximity

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The opposite of social distance.

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Features of Collaborative conversation.

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  • Laughter
  • Body language
  • Facial expressions, smiles, eye contact, nods.
  • Minimal response.
  • Supportive overlapping
  • Ellipsis.
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Conversational strategies

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  • Topic management
  • Turn-taking
  • Holding the floor
  • Adjacency pairs
  • Minimal response/listening noises
  • Discourse particles
  • Interrogative Tags.
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Register

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Any socially defined variety of language.(Language that is appropriate in a specific situation. e.g. Scientific or religious register.

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Minimal Response

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Indicate to the speaker that you are listening, and can encourage them to continue with their turn. e.g. mmmm or yeah.

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Neologism

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A newly coined word.

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Sociolect

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A dialect used by people of a particular socioeconomic status or educational background.

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Style

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The way in which features of the language are used to convey meaning.

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Context

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The circumstances in which speech and writing take place.

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Field

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What you are communicating about. E.g. If you are talking about god you are talking in the field of religion.

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Domain

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A sphere of activity, concern, interest or field. e.g home,work,school.

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Locale

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Where you are when the communication takes place. e.g. Are you in church or are you with mates watching the football?

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Assonance

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The use of identical vowel sounds within words. e.g. “get” and “better”

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds in words, for example “white gate”.

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Auxiliary verbs

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A verb which precedes the main verb. e.g. “to be” or “to have” or “to do”, also known as “helper verbs”.

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Positive Face

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The need to be liked, respected and made to feel good.

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Negative Face

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The need to be autonomous and act without imposition from other.

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Characteristics of formal texts.

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  • It adopts the formal register.
  • Often designed for large audiences across space and time.
  • Often used in prestigious contexts.
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Characteristics of informal texts.

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  • It adopts the informal register.
  • Usually spoken not written.
  • Involves lexical and semantic phenomena
  • Often spontaneous
  • It is unstable and does not always last.
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Antecedent

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A thing or event that logically precedes another.

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Egalitarianism

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A value that expresses equality between speakers.

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Strategies of holding the floor

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  • foreshadowing: the process of listing what you will be speaking about indicating to listeners that you intend to continue talking and that they should listen.
  • features of prosody: such as pause fillers e.g. It was ummmmm really ummmm good.
  • syntactic features: such as conjunctions e.g. He ate carrot and an apple and melon and then……
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Orthography

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The study of the use of letters in a language, it includes the rules of spelling.

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Nominalisation

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The process that turns whole clauses into noun-like structures. (compressing the meaning of the sentence.

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Homonymy

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Lexemes that share a form (phonological or orthographic) but have unrelated, distinct meanings. E.g. A wooden “bat” vs a flying “bat”.

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Hyperbole

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Phrase

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Clause

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Sentence

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Clause structure

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Subject

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Object

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Complement

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Adverbial

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Sentence structures

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Sentence Fragments

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Simple sentences

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Compound sentences

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Complex sentences

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Compound-complex sentences

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Nominalisation

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Coordination

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Subordination

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Active voice

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Passive voice

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Agentless Passives

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Antithesis

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Listing

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Parallelism

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Syntactic patterning

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