Key Terminology Flashcards
Accent
The way you pronounce words
Dialect
The words you use
Cliquish Exclusion
Excluding people from a group that they do not like
Idiolect
An individual’s use of language
Received Pronunciation
Proper English or “Queen’s English”
Sociolect
Words used by a certain social group
Divergence
Changing language in order to stand out
Convergence
Changing language in order to fit in
Lexis
Words
Phonology
The way individual sounds are made
Familect
Language used in a family
Jargon
Words that are not commonly used or that are hard to understand
Neologisms
Newly invented, commonly used words
Taboo Language
Offensive / Unacceptable language
Vernacular
Everyday language
Colloquial
Informal language
Imperative
Direct command
Paralinguistic Communication
Body language, gestures and facial expressions - Communication that isn’t verbal
IRF
Initiation, (Speaker asking a question), Response (The listener answering the question) and the Feedback (The original speaker responding again).
Discourse Marker
A word or phrase to introduce a statement or get attention
Interrogatives
Question words
Idiomatic Phrases
Phrases that require context
Social Mobility
Phrases that require context
Dialect Levelling
Language from different areas coming together and ‘levelling’ out
Directives
Speech act which tries to get another person to do something
Phatic Expression
Communication serving social function
Prosody
Intonation / Tone
Code Switching
Changing language based on context / setting
Hedges
“Kind of / Sort of”
Qualifiers
How confident you are with something “I think that”
