grammar of spoken language Flashcards
lexis
the word choice
backchannel behaviour
noises made by the listener while someone speaks (yeah,ok,mm)
marker of sympathetic circularity + tag questions
function of checking someone is ‘still with you’ - ‘right?’ , ‘aren’t you?’
purposefully vague language
‘sort of’ , ‘kind of’ , ‘stuff like that’
discourse markers
words and phrases used to mark boundaries in conversation between topics, ‘anyway’
ellipsis
speaker leaves out some parts of the full structure as they assume the listener understands
modal expression
words and phrases that indicate the attitude of the speaker towards the situation they are describing, ‘i suppose’, ‘sort of’, ‘whatever’
phonology
sounds of language
phoneme
distinctive sound within language
graphology
visual marks on the page
grapheme
smallest unit of written language
morphology
word structure
morpheme
smallest unit of meaning
discourse
structure of text
mode
the way language is transmitted from person to person
field
the topic or subject matter
function
the purpose of the text
audience
relationship and relative status of the writer and audience
heteronyms
same graphemes, different phonemes
homophone
a word that has two or more spellings that sound the same
jargon
words related to a specific field
subject specific lexis
words related to the subject
semantic field
words related to meaning but not directly linked to main topic
