Coherance, Cohesion, Sentences, and Informality with it's subsytems Flashcards
What is coherance?
The quality of being logical and understanability
What is cohesion?
How parts of the text fit in witht he whole unit. The ‘Lego Pieces’ if you will.
What are the features of coherance?
- Bold Headings
- Sub Headings
- Implied Sub-headings
- Conventions (Recipe vs News)
- Inference (Take a seat)
- Markers (* like this, shows info)
- Logical development of ideas
- Listing and dot points
- Parenthesis
- Spelling and Punctuation
- Sub Spec Lexis (Semanic Field)
What are the features of cohesion?
- Anaphoric
- Cataphoric
- Deictic (Turn to NEXT page)
- Antonyms + Synonyms
- Hyponyms (Word subdivisions)
- Collocation (Heavy rain)
- Conjunctions
- Adverbials (connects parts)
- Ellipsis (Avoids word repetition)
- Repetition
- Subsitution
Name the informal features of lexicolodgy
- Puns (also semantic)
- Neologisms (new words)
- Slang
- Swearing
What are the purposes of swearing?
- Build Rapport
- Threaten Face Needs
- Convey Emotion
What are the features of informal semantic fields?
- Taboo topics
- Dysphemism
What is the difference between colloquial terms and slang?
Colloquial is halfway between standard english and slang. Stuff your parents would know (E.g Cool)
Meanwhile slang is strictly generational.
What is the difference between Jargon and Slang?
Slang is limited to generational speech communities, and social.
Jargon is strictly proffessional and formal, however both share the purpose of supporting in-group membership.
What are address terms?
How you address someone. E.g “mate”.
What are the 3 morphological (lexicolodgical too) patterns that tie in with informality?
- Diminutives (Servo)
- Blending (Brunch)
- Fan-fucking-tastic (Infix)
What are modal verbs and auxilliary verbs?
Modal verbs express possibility (may)
Auxilliary verbs are verbs that take a secondary role in a sentence other than the main verb (was, did, are)
What is semantic patternings main meaning in the informal register?
Semantic patterning supports the social purposes such as entertaining and linguistic innovation, though it depends on the context.
What are the features of semantic patterning in an informal text?
- Personnification
- Irony
- Metaphor
- Oxymoron
- Animation
- Puns
- Lexical ambiguity
What is the main feature of syntactic patterning in an informal text?
Non standard structure that serves a informal social purpose
