General Key Terms Flashcards

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The omission of a word which is assumed

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Ellipsis

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The name when a mass audience are spoken to as if they are an individual

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Synthetic personalisation

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Shared knowledge

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Diexis

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Underlying or implied meanings

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Pragmatics

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‘Ought’ ‘should’ ‘must’

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Deontic modal verbs

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‘Will’ ‘shall’ ‘have’

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Epistemic modal verbs

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‘Ran’ ‘jumped’

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Verbs

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‘Nice’ ‘lovely’

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Empty adjectives

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‘Quickly’ ‘yesterday’ ‘at the park’

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Adverbial clause

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‘I’ ‘you’

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Personal pronouns

Direct address

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‘We will bake, we will cook, and we will eat’

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Anaphora

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A01

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Terminology

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A02

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Concepts and issues

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A03

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Context

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‘Quivered’

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Material verb

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Semantic derogation

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Negative meaning attached to word/item

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Semantic deterioration

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Process of having negative connotations attached

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What is implied

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Denotation

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Literal thoughts

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Connotation

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Semantic nonequivalences

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Same sex words which have gained different connotations

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Covert prestige

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Lowering grammar to fit in

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Overt prestige

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Making language more correct formal

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Material verbs

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Describe actions of events

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Relational verbs

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Describe thought or speech ‘love’ ‘believe’ ‘think’

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Actor

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individual responsible for action of a verb process

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Affected

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Person affected by material verb process

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Phatic talk

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Small talk