LANGUAGE FORMS Flashcards
deal with the internal grammatical structure of words and phrases as well as the word themselves.
Language Forms
TRUE or FALSE
When we say language form it can be formal or informal.
TRUE
is the style in which a piece of text is written
for example novel, short
story, play, dramatic monologue, and sonnet.
Form
is considered as the vocabulary used within a text including language devices, such as pathetic fallacy, personification, direct speech and metaphor.
Language
is characterized by the use of standard English, more complex sentence structures, infrequent use of personal and lack of colloquial or slang terms.
Formal Language
allows the use of nonstandard English terms, colloquial vocabulary, and typically shorter sentence structures.
Informal Language
are more casual, if you are striving for more formal style,
they should not be used
Contractions
TRUE or FALSE?
Contractions in positive sentences should be especially avoided since they are easy to miss.
False, it should be in NEGATIVE sentences
The technical term for the term for the form of language is
Register
the level of formality in language that’s determined by the context in which it is spoken or written.
Register
____ in communication affect the form of language being used. This does not concern the variety of languages but may take the forms that reflect the types of sentences. (Lander, 2016)
shifts
For Communicative strategies like Nomination, Turn-taking, and Topic Control we use mixed forms of ?
interrogative and imperative.
In Topic Control, Repair and Termination, we mostly use ____ & ____ forms of sentences.
declarative and exclamatory
language is a ____ structure
nested
Human language involves two types of structures.
In the first, elements from a finite set of meaningless “sounds” are combined into meaningful “words”
and parts of words, known as
Morphemes
