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Taboo

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Banned words. Society shifts and words become unacceptable

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Closed language community

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A shared language/knowledge between a select group of people

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Collocate

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Words that typically appear together

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Fixed expressions

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A well used group of words that ends up being used as a larger structure

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Accent levelling

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When we neutralise our accent

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Pragmatics

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The implied meaning of something

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Repore/rapport

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Creating relationship

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Positive face

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The need to feel valued and that your contributions are valued too

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Back-channelling

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Supportive noises like “mhmm” and “yeah”

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Phallocentric language

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Language that favours men and gives them more power

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Synthetic personallisation

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When brands etc make you feel like you have a repore

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Adjacency pairs

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Questions and answers

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Non-standard form

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Relaxed language eg. slang, colloquialisms and taboo

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Context of production

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The time that something was made

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Context of reception

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When something is watched/received. THIS CHANGES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE CONTEXT SHIFTS

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Positional power

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Power given by your position in society

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Prestige

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Power

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Sociallisation

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Grouping together

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Inherent ideology

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The beliefs/ideologies passed down onto us by family/society

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Accent

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How you talk and sound and pronunciate your words

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Communicative competancy

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Wanting to feel our opinion is valued by using the rules of conversation

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Semantic non-equivalent

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Implies a gap in society between men and women

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Marked forms

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Words that denote gender and connote gender terms eg policeman

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Unmarked forms

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A gender neutral term eg police officer

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Jargon

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Complex language relating to a specific field. Use can make people lose positive face if they aren’t part of the closed language community

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Tag questions

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Attaching a question to a statement to keep convo flowing and keep positive face

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Hedges

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When you know the answer but hesitate from giving it. Suggests hesitancy

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Fillers

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Words that buy us time to speak lie so and umm

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Lexis

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Vocab (a word)

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Context

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The social surroundings of the social issues of the day

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Reductive

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Power is reduced

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Subjugated

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Being positioned under something

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Perpetuated

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Passed on

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Systematically skewed

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Specifically changed for a purpose and will continue that way because that’s the way it’s designed

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Declarative talk

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Used to convey info/statements

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Referential talk

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Referencing people and places to get answers

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Blending

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Mixing words to create a new one

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The male gaze

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Women being presented for male pleasure

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Defecit

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A lack of (Lakoff)

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Dominance

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The most powerful

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Difference

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Two things which are dissimilar

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Phattic talk

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pointless talk

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Super-polite forms

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Prim and proper language

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Convergence

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Moving our language closer to the context

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Divergence

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Moving further away from the lang and context

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Diminitive

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Degrading

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Linguistic repetoire

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Your vocab library

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Overt prestige

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Adapting our language to a larger group of people to sustain PF

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Covert prestige

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Adapting our language to a smaller group of people to sustain repores

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Autonomy

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equality and power

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Language mitigation

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Trying to make things sound better

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Abrasive

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Gets to the point

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Declarative sentences

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Used to convey info/statements

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Derrogative

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An offensive word/statement

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Queer

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Odd

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Lexicon

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A wide shared vocab. People don’t even know it exists

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Inflected intination

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Putting emphasis on certain words

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Superlatives

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Hyperbole and exaguration

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Polari

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Low register gay language

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Prosodic features

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pitch, tone and intination

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Paralinguistic features

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Using hands expressively

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Code switching

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Quickly changing the topic of conversation and tone of voice when an outsider enters the room

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Reappropriation

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Reclaiming something to gain power

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Stigmatizing

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Portrayed negatively

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Minority

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Smaller faction of society

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Topic marker

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Where the topic is set by the speaker

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Topic shift

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When the topic shifts

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Topic loop

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When the original topic of conversation comes back around

English language: key words (4 decks)

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