key words Flashcards
Taboo
Banned words. Society shifts and words become unacceptable
Closed language community
A shared language/knowledge between a select group of people
Collocate
Words that typically appear together
Fixed expressions
A well used group of words that ends up being used as a larger structure
Accent levelling
When we neutralise our accent
Pragmatics
The implied meaning of something
Repore/rapport
Creating relationship
Positive face
The need to feel valued and that your contributions are valued too
Back-channelling
Supportive noises like “mhmm” and “yeah”
Phallocentric language
Language that favours men and gives them more power
Synthetic personallisation
When brands etc make you feel like you have a repore
Adjacency pairs
Questions and answers
Non-standard form
Relaxed language eg. slang, colloquialisms and taboo
Context of production
The time that something was made
Context of reception
When something is watched/received. THIS CHANGES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE CONTEXT SHIFTS
Positional power
Power given by your position in society
Prestige
Power
Sociallisation
Grouping together
Inherent ideology
The beliefs/ideologies passed down onto us by family/society
Accent
How you talk and sound and pronunciate your words
Communicative competancy
Wanting to feel our opinion is valued by using the rules of conversation
Semantic non-equivalent
Implies a gap in society between men and women
Marked forms
Words that denote gender and connote gender terms eg policeman
Unmarked forms
A gender neutral term eg police officer
Jargon
Complex language relating to a specific field. Use can make people lose positive face if they aren’t part of the closed language community
Tag questions
Attaching a question to a statement to keep convo flowing and keep positive face
Hedges
When you know the answer but hesitate from giving it. Suggests hesitancy
Fillers
Words that buy us time to speak lie so and umm
Lexis
Vocab (a word)
Context
The social surroundings of the social issues of the day
Reductive
Power is reduced
Subjugated
Being positioned under something
Perpetuated
Passed on
Systematically skewed
Specifically changed for a purpose and will continue that way because that’s the way it’s designed
Declarative talk
Used to convey info/statements
Referential talk
Referencing people and places to get answers
Blending
Mixing words to create a new one
The male gaze
Women being presented for male pleasure
Defecit
A lack of (Lakoff)
Dominance
The most powerful
Difference
Two things which are dissimilar
Phattic talk
pointless talk
Super-polite forms
Prim and proper language
Convergence
Moving our language closer to the context
Divergence
Moving further away from the lang and context
Diminitive
Degrading
Linguistic repetoire
Your vocab library
Overt prestige
Adapting our language to a larger group of people to sustain PF
Covert prestige
Adapting our language to a smaller group of people to sustain repores
Autonomy
equality and power
Language mitigation
Trying to make things sound better
Abrasive
Gets to the point
Declarative sentences
Used to convey info/statements
Derrogative
An offensive word/statement
Queer
Odd
Lexicon
A wide shared vocab. People don’t even know it exists
Inflected intination
Putting emphasis on certain words
Superlatives
Hyperbole and exaguration
Polari
Low register gay language
Prosodic features
pitch, tone and intination
Paralinguistic features
Using hands expressively
Code switching
Quickly changing the topic of conversation and tone of voice when an outsider enters the room
Reappropriation
Reclaiming something to gain power
Stigmatizing
Portrayed negatively
Minority
Smaller faction of society
Topic marker
Where the topic is set by the speaker
Topic shift
When the topic shifts
Topic loop
When the original topic of conversation comes back around
