Formal Features Flashcards

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Jargon

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Technical or specialised terms within a specific field.

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Euphemism

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Language that masks or mitigates a taboo or offensive topic.

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Double Speak

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Language that purposefully obscures, obfuscates, or hinders the meaning or intent of a statement.

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Rhetoric

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Informing, persuading, or motivating a reader/listener into action.

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5
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Non-discriminatory Language

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Language that focuses on creating inclusivity and equality, by avoiding prejudice or stereotyping.

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Social Purposes of Formal Language

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Politeness strategies, reinforcing social distance and authority, establishing expertise, promoting social harmony, negotiating taboos, building rapport, clarifying, manipulating, obfuscating.

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Cohesion in Formal Texts

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Lexical choice, collocation, information flow, referencing, repetition, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, adverbials

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Coherence in Formal Texts

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Cohesion, Inference, Logical ordering, formatting, consistency, conventions

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