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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant in initial position, eg Big Bees on Birch and Bricks

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Phonological Patterning

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Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, rhythm, rhyme, used to capture attention of audience

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel phonemes across phrases, eg “Fleet of jeeps through the streets”

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Consonance

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Repeitition of consonants anywhere, usually at syllable-final boundaries. eg. “beeS in the treeS buZZed with eaSe”

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Onomatopoeia

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evocative words from the sounds they represent, eg crash bang

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Rhythm

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Patterns of intonation, eg double double toil and trouble, STRONG weak STrong weak STRONG weak STRONg weak

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Rhyme

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Repetition of similar phonemes at the end of each word. can be half rhyme (one of the sounds of the syllable) or full rhyme.

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Syntactic Patterns

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Parallelism, Antithesis, Listing, used to capture attention, make text more memorable or reinforce meaning/understanding

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Parallelism

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A parallel syntactic structure, eg i love jacob. Jacob loves me.

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Antithesis

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two contrasting ideas near each other. eg there are good days and bad days

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Listing

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what did u think it was? you are: dumb, stupid, an idiot, restarted, acoustic

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Discourse

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The study of units longer than a sentence

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Pragmatics

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The study of language used within a given context, and how context contributes to meaning.

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Cohesion

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lexical choice, elipsis, repetition, referencing, synonymy, antonymy, metonymy, substitution, collocation, adverbials, conjunctions, information flow

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Information flow

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clefting: it-cleft, wh-cleft
front focus: left dislocation, and fronting, passives, .
end focus: end weight, right dislocation, there constructions

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Referencing

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Anaphoric, Cataphoric, Deictic

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Tenor

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the mood of the relationship between the participants of a discourse, as set by author, described through social distance and social hierarchy

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Coherence

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Cohesion features (but don’t ever fucking talk about them) consistency, conventions, inference, formatting, logical ordering

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Features of spoken discourse

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openings, closings, adjacency pairs, minimal responses, overlapping speech, discourse markers, non-fluency features

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Consistency

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Similar contexts used within the text. Involves font and spacing, punctuation, visual cues

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Conventions

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established rules and expectations for the text

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Non-fluency features

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Pauses, filled pauses, repair sequences, false starts, repetition

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Spoken discourse features

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Topic Management, Turn taking, Management of Repair Sequences, Codeswitching

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Politeness Strategies

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Positive politeness- social harmony and rapport, similarity, interest etc.

Negative politeness - reducing imposition placed on other parties, hedging, apologising, etc.

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Face

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Positive face: dog. Wanting to be liked and seen. social recognition.

Negative face: cat. Wanting to be free from imposition, keeping personal liberties.

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Hedging

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Being a bitch

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Semantic patterns

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figurative language, irony, oxymoron, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, animation, lexical ambiguity, puns

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personification v animation

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personificication is giving agency and human qualities, while animation is giving them living qualities without necessarily giving agency

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Irony

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Saying one thing but meaning another, typically the opposite, eg sarcasm

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oxymoron

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contradictory words or phrases used together

bittersweet, delicious poison, virtual reality

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Other semantic features

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semantic domain, idiom, denotation, connotation, euphemism, dysphemism

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prosodic features:

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Intonation, stress, tempo, rhythm, pitch

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Social distance

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closeness of participants of a discourse

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Authority

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power that a person or group holds

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Expertise

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high level of knowledge of a specific subjects

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Purposes of formal language

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Politeness strategies, social harmony, negotiating social taboos, building rapport, reinforcing social distance and authority, establishing expertise, clarifying, manipulating, obfuscating

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Discourse strategies in formal texts

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topic management, turn taking, management of repair sequences, code switching

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Discourse factors cohesion coherence

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regular cohesion and coherence

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