Formal english language Flashcards
Temporal dialect
Time period of the speaker
Regional dialect
geographical region
sociolect
Social group
Standard/Non standard language
Range of intelligibility
Idiolect
Unique speech patterns
Ethnolects
Ethnic dialect
The types of registers
Highly formal, Formal, Semi-formal, Casual, Very casual, intimate.
Phonological patterns RACORA
Rhyme, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopeia, Rhythm, alliteration
What is assonance?
Vowel sounds that are similar in a sentence
Consonance
similar sounding consonances in a sentence
Syntactic patterning
Parallelism, antithesis, listing
Morphological patterning acronym
4C a sad bin
Morphological patterning
Creative word formation, collocation, compounding, contraction, acronym, shortening, archaism, diminutive, blend, initialism, neologism
what is a diminutive?
A shortening with a morpheme such as -a -i -e, heavily reduces formality
what’s a metaphor?
abstract ideas in concrete terms
what is animation?
personification of inanimate objects
what is irony?
Say one thing but mean the other
what is personification?
Gives lifelike characteristics to animals and objects alike
what is an oxymoron
two opposing ideas
what is a pun?
A pun happens when a meaning isn’t decided for sure or confusion of word classes.
How to identify an active sentence?
A subject performing an action.
how to identify a Passive sentence?
A past tense verb followed by is am are was were be being been.
What are the five social purposes?
Maintain positive + negative face needs, reinforce social distance and authority, establish expertise, promote social harmony, negotiate negative taboos and clarity + manipulate.
how does one talk about terms of expertise
Jargon
What does social harmony include?
Inclusive language, politeness markers, non discriminative language.
What does Mailpops stand for?
Metaphor, animation, irony, lexical ambiguity, pun, oxymoron, personification, simile
What are the first person pronouns?
Me, us, our, we
What are the second person pronouns?
You, you all, yours
What are the third person pronouns
They, he/she
The, A and An are examples of what word class?
Determiners
