General Terminology Flashcards
Anthropomorphism
Personification but with animals instead
Idiolect
Speech habits of an individual e.g. Job, education, social class, places you live, media, friends, family, gender
Sociolect
Language used by a group of people e.g. Family, friends
Convergence and divergence
Convergence- to mirror the listener
Divergence- to put distance between the listener and speaker
Received Pronunciation
Upper class stereotype- Queen
Mode
Method of communication- written, spoken, multimodal
Field
Subject matter- specialist and non specialist terminology
Function
The purpose- to inform etc
Audience
Relationship between speaker and listener, reader and writer
Register
Language used for a particular purpose in a particular social context
Subject specific lexis
Words referring to a specific subject e.g. Food
Vulgarism
Language which falls short of taboo but is rather coarse and not used in polite society
Slang
Refers to individual language of certain regions
Non standard dialect
Words and grammatical constructions not convinced to be ‘good’ English
Collliquilism
Loose term which literally means ‘language as it is spoken’
Standard English
Formal English- term used for vocabulary and grammatical constructions generally accepted as correct
Referential
Refers without context
Expressive
‘Wow!’
Transactional
Asking for a purpose’ where is the post office etc’
Interactional
‘I haven’t spoken to you in ages!’
Phatic
Small talk
