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English Language Subtypes Flashcards

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Vocal Effects:

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Coughs

Laughter

Breaths

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Prosodic Features:

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pitch

stress

intonation

tempo

volume

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Sounds in connected speech and processes:

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Assimilation

Vowel reduction

Elision

Insertion

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Phonological Patterning:

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Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

Onomatopea

Rhythm

Rhyme

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Lexical Patterning:

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Repetition

Lexical Choice

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Morphological Patterning:

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Conversion of word class

Creative word formation

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Semantic patterning:

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Irony

Metaphors

Similes

Oxymoron’s

Lexical Ambiguity

figurative language

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Syntactic Patterning:

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Parrelism

Antithesis

Listing

Puns

Idioms

Euphemisms

Dysphemism’s

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Word Classes:

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Nouns

Adverbs

Verbs

Adjectives

Prepositions

Pronouns

Conjunctions

Determiners

Interjections

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Affixation:

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Prefix

Affix

Suffix

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Word formation processes:

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Blends

Acronyms

Neoglisms

Archaism

Compounding

Contractions

Collocations

Borrowing

Commonisation

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Sentence Structures:

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Fragements

Simple

Complex sentences

Compound sentences

Compound complex sentences

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Sentence types:

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Declarative sentences

Imperative sentences

Interrogative sentences

Exclamative sentences

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Types of voice

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Active voice

Passive voice

Agentless passive

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Coherance features:

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Cohesion

inference

logical ordering

formatting

consistency and conventions

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Cohesion features:

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Deixes;

lexical choice: Synonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, collocations

Information flow: Clefting, front and end focus

Anorphoric and cataphoric reference

Ellipses

Substitution

Conjunctions and Adverbials

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Features of spoken discourse:

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opening and closings

adjacency pairs

overlapping speech

interrogative tags

non fluency features: Pauses, filled pauses/hesitations, false starts, repairs and repetition

18
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Stratergies in spoken discourse

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topic management

Turn taking (holding, taking passing the floor)

minimal responses/back channelling

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Lexical Meaning:

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Connotation, denotation, Synonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, idioms

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