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Key terms for gender (Paper 4) Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Code switching

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Adapting lang to audience and purpose

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Repertoire

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The vocab we use due to life experiences

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3
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Accent levelling

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Neutralise accent + dialect

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Communicative Competency

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To know and follow the rules of conversation

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Semantic-non equivalents

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Implies gap between men and women

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Marked form

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Denotes gender terms ie policeman

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Unmarked form

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Gender neutral term

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Context of production and reception

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When it’s made vs when it’s received

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Solidarity

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Mutual support within a group

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Covert prestige

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We use and sustain language in a smaller group to maintain rapport between

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Overt prestige

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We use and adapt language to a larger group to sustain positive face
Accent level more

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Autonomy

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Power/equality

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Declarative talk

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Sentences used to convey info or statements

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Referential talk

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Gets answers
References people, place for answers
Ed “Where’s the post office?”

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Blending

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Mixing words to form new ones eg mansplane

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Synthetic personalisation

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Company’s/ brands/ people make you believe you have a rapport

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Phallocentric

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Language that is seen to privilege men

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Back channelling

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Supportive noises eg hmm

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Fillers

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Thinking time. Helps us feel valued eg um er

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Hedges

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Suggests element of hesitancy eg “do you think?”

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Adjacency pairs

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Question and response

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Overlaps

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Talking over someone. Breaks politeness rule

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Jargon

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Complex lang relating to a specific field. Difficult words. Used amongst institutions for broviy

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Brovity

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Short, concise, straight to point to

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Tag question

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Attaching a question to a statement to maintain conversation and politeness rule

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Closed language

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Idea of shared language and knowledge within a smaller group

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Sociolect

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A shared group language of a particular social class

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Idiolect

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System of belief

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Topic shift, markers and loops

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Change topic marker

Topic is set by speaker

Go back to marker- original conversation

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Synthetic sisterhood

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Girls are believed into “we are all in this together”

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Intertextual reference

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References to wider things are made

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Mitigated imperatives

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A negative face threatening act

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Discourse community

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A group of people working together with a goal

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Deixis

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Language not understood without context

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Deletion

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Removal of letters and intentionally misspelling them eg u, k

36
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Blending

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Mixture of words

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Idioms

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Phrases within sociolect we understand eg “over the moon”

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Repetition of letters

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eg ooooo or ahhhh

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Speech communities

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A group of people who use the same variety of language and who share specific rules for speaking and interpretating speech

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Power asymmetry

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Language is used to assert and respect power in that workplace

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Positive face threatening acts

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Any act that may make the receiver not feel valued/ a valued contributor to discussion
eg “that’s a rubbish idea”

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Negative face threatening acts

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When you are imposed union usually through an imperative

eg “Pass me the file”

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Subject specific lexis

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Topic and context related language specific to a field

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Descriptive

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The way language is used
Adaptive
Evolution

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Prescriptive

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The way language “should” be used
Should be proper english
Conservative ie old fashioned

46
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Polari

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Secret gay language

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Euphemistic talk

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ie polari

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Unequal encounter

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One speaker is seen as a powerful participant and the others are less powerful

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Deltymes

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Communicative competency- you can communicate the rules, you know what to do, make valuable contributions

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Mitigated Imperatives

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A negative face threatening act

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Social register

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Refers to specific lexical and grammatical choices as made by speakers depending on the social situational context like formality level , the participants relation and distance of a conversation and the function of the language in the discourse.

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High register

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more formal, more elaborated language.

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Low register

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someone who did not speak according to the accepted norm

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Register

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refers to the style of the language you use

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