Glossary Flashcards
What is genre?
Literary genres of prose, poetry and drama or types of content
Whatever are 2 different types of mode?
Speech and writing
What is a hybrid form of communication that is based off of the 2 modes?
Mobile communication (texting)
What are meanings of texts?
Messages that are communicated in texts
What are representations?
How something appears to be not what it actually is
What is graphology?
All the visual aspects of textual design
What is lexis?
Vocabulary of a language
What is morphology?
Aspects of grammar that refers to grammatical markers
What does a multimodal text do?
Combine more than one mode in a text
What is an antonym?
A word that means the opposite
What are phonetics?
Physical production and reception of sound
What is phonology?
Study about all the sounds of a particular language
What are pragmatics?
Study of words used in a particular context to create a meaning
What are semantics?
The meanings of words and expressions or meaning in a broader sense
What is the term given to how words are arranged, or word order typical of a language?
Syntax
How do adjectives support nouns?
Give extra information and describe the qualities of nouns
What do adverbs give more information about?
Verbs
What is a semantic pattern?
A cluster of words throughout a text that have similar meanings and uses
What is a discourse?
A stretch of language about a topic considered in its context of use
What is the term that defines a person or thing that is the direct opposite?
The antithesis
What is the discourse structure?
The internal structure of a text
What do pronouns replace?
Nouns
What is a semantic field?
A group of terms from the same domain (eg. Names for food)
How is tense determined?
By verbs that indicate time
