key terms

Question 1

pragmatics

Answer 1

How context contributes to meaning (meaning behind what is being said)

-e.g “How are you?” -> don’t actually care
-e.g getting stared at “Can i help you?”

Question 2

Phatic communication

Answer 2

small talk (polite)

Question 3

fillers

Answer 3

words that fill the space (e.g ummmm, like)

Question 4

ephemeral

Answer 4

lasting for a very short time

Question 5

Declarative

Answer 5

a statement

Question 6

lexis

Answer 6

words

Question 7

maxims

Answer 7

rules

Question 8

flout

Answer 8

to break (flout maxims = broken rules)

Question 9

colloquial

Answer 9

used in ordinary/familiar conversation

Question 10

etymology

Answer 10

the story behind the word/ where it has come from

Question 11

Lingua Franca

Answer 11

Like a linguistic tracing currency (e.g a Spanish person and a Finland person trying to talk to each other, would both speaks English to communicate)

Question 12

Comprehensive

Answer 12

Including all aspects of something

Question 13

discourse

Answer 13

A big conversation

Question 14

collocation.

Answer 14

words that are often found together
(fish and chips, care home)

Question 15

connotation vs denotation

Answer 15

con-> what words mean in their context (e.g red = love/death)

den-> literal dictionary definition (e.g red = colour on the spectrum)

Question 16

root morpheme vs bound morpheme

Answer 16

RM-> part of a word that can stand alone (ie word)
BM-> cannot stand alone (ie word[s])