Formal Features Flashcards
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Register
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Register is language that is appropriate for a specific situation
- relates to formality
- depicted by context, domain and tone
- register cannot be reduced or increase, but formality can be
2
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Formality includes;
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- prepared, planned
- scripted
- mostly standard
- usually ‘elevated’ lexical choices
- more archaic phrases
- more complex syntax
3
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Formal Context
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- The more formal context, the standard will be followed
- Because standard is codified, when serious, and significant, it should/expected to be used
4
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Phonological Features
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- sound symbolism (e.g, Garnier Fructus)
- alliteration (deliberate and deadly)
- assonance (beacon for freedom)
- consonance (flying into buildings)
- onomatopoeia (the bush rustled)
- rhyme (the wind blows and the stream flows)
- accent (broad -> general -> cultative)
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Morphological Features
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- specialist semantic field
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6
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Formal Features
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- more explicit
- more cohesive
- more explicit in terms of aspects of the context
- constructed with a greater use of rhetorical techniques
- constructed with a greater focus on information flow
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Lexical Features
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- Specialist semantic field
8
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Syntactic Patterning
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- P.A.L
9
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Parallelism
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- “our fellow citizens, our way of life, our way of freedom”
- repetition of the possessive determiner and NPs
- creates mirrored structures
10
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Antithesis
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- “terrorist attacks can shake the…, but they cannot touch the…”
- ‘can’ and ‘cannot’ have opposite meanings, with similar clause structures
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Listing
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- “disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger”
- distinguishes between commas, repetition of NPs
12
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Passive Voice
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- “Branden was slapped BY JL”
- shifts grammatical subject, causing an emphasis on Branden
13
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Nominalisation
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- ” (the) implement(ation of) our governments emergency response plan’s”
- sounds more authoritative and creates lexical and syntactic density
14
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Sentence Types
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- declaratives
- imperatives
- exclamative
- interrogative
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Sentence Structures
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- compound
- complex
- compound-complex
- simple
- fragments
