General Metalanguage Flashcards

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Politeness Strategies

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The language choices made to show consideration towards others, or a knowledge of social norms and expectations.

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Positive Politeness

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The strategies used to create a build social harmony between interlocutors. Such as: emphasising similarity, showing interest, humour, compliments, or inclusive language.

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Negative Politeness

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The strategies used to reduce imposition on the other interlocutor. Such as: Hedging, indirect/ambiguous language, low modality verbs, use of politeness markers, or apologies.

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Positive and Negative Face

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The concept that everyone has a want to be liked and feel like they belong (positive), but that they also want to maintain their own free will and autonomy (negative).

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Euphemism

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Words that are used in place of a blunt/taboo word or phrase, to lessen a negative impact.

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Dysphemism

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Words that are used to magnify a particular blunt/taboo word or phrase, to increase the impact of a statement.

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Jakobson’s Functions

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Referential, Phatic, Emotive, Conative, Metalinguistic, Poetic.

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Standard English

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The variety of English that represents the established variety of written and spoken English.

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Register

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Stylistic variation of language, that relates to language features and levels of formality.

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Tenor

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The relationship between the participants of an exchange.

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