ENG metalanguage Flashcards
connected speech processes (phonology)
Vowel reduction
Elision
Insertion
prosodic features (phonology)
Pitch
Intonation
Stress
Tempo
Volume
patterning + accent (phonology)
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance
Onomatopoeia, Rhythm, Rhyme
Accent: Broad, General, Cultivated
morphemes (morphology)
Root
Stem
Free, bound
Affix (Prefix, Suffix, Infix)
Inflection, Derivational
word formation processes + patterning (morphology)
Affixation
Abbreviation
Shortening
Compounding
Blending
Backfromation
Conversion of word class
Initialism, acronym
Contraction
Hypercrostic suffixation
word classes (lexicology)
Nouns, pronouns
Verbs, Auxiliary verbs, modal verbs
Adjectives
Propositions
Conjunctions (coordinates, subordinates)
Determiners
Propositions
word formation processes (lexicology)
Neologisms
Borrowing
Commonisation
Nominalisation
phrases (syntax)
Noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverb phrase, prepositional phrase
clauses (syntax)
Subject, object, predicate, complement, adverbial
Combined clauses: coordination, subordination
sentence structures (syntax)
simple, compound, compound-complex, complex
sentence types (syntax)
declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative
word order (syntax)
Subject, verb, object
Modifiers in a noun phrase
Adverbials
voice (syntax)
active, passive, agentless
syntactic patterning
Antithesis
Listing
Parallelism
cohesion (discourse)
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
coherence (discourse)
Cohesion
Inference
Logical ordering
Formatting
Consistency and conventions
spoken discourse features (discourse)
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
spoken discourse strategies (discourse)
Topic management
Turn-taking
Management of repair sequences
Code-switching as a marker of group membership and belonging
paralinguistic features
Vocal effects
Whispers
Laughter
Creakiness
Vocal fry
Breathiness
Non-verbal communication
Gestures
Eye contact
Facial expressions
politeness strategies
Positive and negative face
Positive and negative face threatening acts
Positive and negative politeness
semantic patterning (semantics)
Figurative language
Irony
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Pun
Lexical ambiguity
Personification
Animation
lexical meaning (semantics)
Synonymy and antonymy
Hyponym and hypernym
Denotation and connotation
Idiom
