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ENG metalanguage Flashcards

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connected speech processes (phonology)

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Vowel reduction
Elision
Insertion

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prosodic features (phonology)

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Pitch
Intonation
Stress
Tempo
Volume

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patterning + accent (phonology)

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Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
Onomatopoeia, Rhythm, Rhyme
Accent: Broad, General, Cultivated

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morphemes (morphology)

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Root
Stem
Free, bound
Affix (Prefix, Suffix, Infix)
Inflection, Derivational

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word formation processes + patterning (morphology)

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Affixation
Abbreviation
Shortening
Compounding
Blending
Backfromation
Conversion of word class
Initialism, acronym
Contraction
Hypercrostic suffixation

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word classes (lexicology)

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Nouns, pronouns
Verbs, Auxiliary verbs, modal verbs
Adjectives
Propositions
Conjunctions (coordinates, subordinates)
Determiners
Propositions

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word formation processes (lexicology)

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Neologisms
Borrowing
Commonisation
Nominalisation

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phrases (syntax)

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Noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverb phrase, prepositional phrase

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clauses (syntax)

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Subject, object, predicate, complement, adverbial
Combined clauses: coordination, subordination

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sentence structures (syntax)

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simple, compound, compound-complex, complex

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sentence types (syntax)

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declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative

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word order (syntax)

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Subject, verb, object
Modifiers in a noun phrase
Adverbials

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voice (syntax)

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active, passive, agentless

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syntactic patterning

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Antithesis
Listing
Parallelism

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cohesion (discourse)

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Lexical choice: synonymy, hyponymy, hypernymy, autonomy
Collocation
Information flow: clefting, front focus and end focus
Anaphoric and cataphoric referencing
Dietetics
Repetition, substitution, ellipsis
Conjunctions and adverbials

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coherence (discourse)

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Cohesion
Inference
Logical ordering
Formatting
Consistency and conventions

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spoken discourse features (discourse)

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Openings & closings
Adjacency pairs, minimal responses/backchannels
Overlapping speech
Discourse markers/particles
Non-fluency features including, pauses, filled pauses/voiced hesitations, false starts, repetition
Repairs

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spoken discourse strategies (discourse)

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Topic management
Turn-taking
Management of repair sequences
Code-switching as a marker of group membership and belonging

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paralinguistic features

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Vocal effects
Whispers
Laughter
Creakiness
Vocal fry
Breathiness
Non-verbal communication
Gestures
Eye contact
Facial expressions

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politeness strategies

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Positive and negative face
Positive and negative face threatening acts
Positive and negative politeness

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semantic patterning (semantics)

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Figurative language
Irony
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Pun
Lexical ambiguity
Personification
Animation

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lexical meaning (semantics)

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Synonymy and antonymy
Hyponym and hypernym
Denotation and connotation
Idiom

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