Formal Features Flashcards
Jargon
Technical or specialised terms within a specific field.
Euphemism
Language that masks or mitigates a taboo or offensive topic.
Double Speak
Language that purposefully obscures, obfuscates, or hinders the meaning or intent of a statement.
Rhetoric
Informing, persuading, or motivating a reader/listener into action.
Non-discriminatory Language
Language that focuses on creating inclusivity and equality, by avoiding prejudice or stereotyping.
Social Purposes of Formal Language
Politeness strategies, reinforcing social distance and authority, establishing expertise, promoting social harmony, negotiating taboos, building rapport, clarifying, manipulating, obfuscating.
Cohesion in Formal Texts
Lexical choice, collocation, information flow, referencing, repetition, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, adverbials
Coherence in Formal Texts
Cohesion, Inference, Logical ordering, formatting, consistency, conventions