Features Flashcards

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Pragmatics

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What the speaker means rather than what they simply say.

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Syndetic Listing

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Lists that use ‘and’ instead of commas.

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Asyndetic Listing

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Lists that use commas instead of ‘and’.

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4
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Ellipsis

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When sentences are shortened because some elements are considered as non-essential, or missing out letters in words.

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5
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Voiced Pauses

A

Sort of, like.

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6
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Back Channelling

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Showing understanding when someone is talking.

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7
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Deixis

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Words which point to something outside the text.

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8
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Prosodic Features

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Pitch, pace.

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9
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Elision

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Missing out sounds or syllables in words.

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10
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Non-Standard English

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Speaking in a non-socially overtly prestigious way.

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11
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Non-Fluency Features

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Hesitation, repetition, false starts.

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12
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Adjacency Pairs

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Question-answer.

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13
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Phatic Talk

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Small talk.

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14
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Tag Questions

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Questions that influence an answer or seek reassurance.

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15
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Paralinguistic Features

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Gestures and facial expressions.

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16
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Discourse Markers

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Word that begin a new sentence.

17
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Co-operative Overlap

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Supportive interruptions.

18
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Utterance

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A sentence.

19
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Convergence

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Changing your language to make it more accessible.

20
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Divergence

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Changing your language to distance yourself.

21
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Antithesis

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An opposition between two things.

22
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Digression

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Avoiding or changing a topic.

23
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Imperative

24
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Rhetorical Features

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AFOREST -

  • Anecdotes/Alliteration.
  • Facts/Flattery.
  • Opinions disguised as facts.
  • Rhetorical questions/Repetition.
  • Emotive language/Exaggeration.
  • Statistics.
  • Triples.
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Collocate
Two or more words that naturally go together.
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Antonym
Words that mean the opposite of eachother.
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Synonym
Words that have the same meaning.
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Acronym
An abbreviation formed by using the first letters of words in a phrase, e.g. NATO.
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Euphemism
A mild word or phrase substituted for a harsh word.
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Dysphemism
An unpleasant word or phrases substituted for a pleasant one.
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Hyponymy