AO1 Flashcards
Jargon
Field specific lexis
Can be used to include/ exclude people from conversation
E.g. Doctors may use divergence and jargon when talking about a patient to they don’t understand what they’re saying
Overt Prestige
Standardising Speech
May do this in workplace to gain status and be seen as educated
Slang
Idiom
Euphemism
Making something sound more positive than it is
May be used to mitigate in the workplace and appear more to positive face
Sociolect
Language variety associated with specific profession
E.g. Doctors use medical terms and are addressed formally in workplace
Inferential Framework
Phatic Talk
Small talk
Convergence
Making speech sound like those around you
Done in workplace to fit into that discourse community
Mitigated Imperative
Using modal verbs in an imperative to not impose on someone and mitigate the command
Deixis
How are modal verbs used?
Used to mitigate imperatives e.g. ‘Would you…’
Floor length/ Turns
Amount of time someone talks for
Longer floor length for someone of higher power
Face Threatening Act
An utterance that upsets someone and suggest we don’t agree with them etc…
Occupational Register
Joo’s Formality
Intimate, Casual, Consultative, Formal, Frozen
Depending on occupation/ position different registers are used
Politeness Markers
Please, thank you etc…
Instrumental Power
Using language to assert rules and make commands
May be common among higher status people in a workplace
Discourse Communities
Groups that have shared goals or purposes and use communication to achieve these goals
