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PAPER 1 - Language, the individual and society

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positive face threatening acts

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damages someone’s self image

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verbal verb

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communicative actions

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abstract noun

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intangible objects

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Future progressive

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Will be -ing (I will be playing)

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morpheme

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smallest unit of language

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euphemism

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less harsh way of discussing taboo topic

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glottal

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hunGRy

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subordinate clause

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addition to main clause and cannot stand alone

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nasal

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uses nose (M,N)

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Lateral

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air past side of tongue (L)

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anaphoric references

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refer to something previously mentioned in the text

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12
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alveolar

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tongue is behind teeth (d in day)

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mental / stative verbs

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perception, cognitive processes and feelings

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complex sentence

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contains at least one subordinate clause

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coordinating conjunction

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joins two equal clauses

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16
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simple past

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  • ed (played)
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pragmatics

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focus on the implied meaning behind an utterance

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18
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past perfect progressive

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had been -ing (I had been playing)

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cataphoric references

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refer to something mentioned later on in the text

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20
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Present progressive

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Am / is -ing (I am playing)

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21
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hyponym

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more specific part of a larger collection

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22
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common noun

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general nouns

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fricative

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push of air (S,F,TH)

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types of determiners

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  • demonstrative (specify what is being referred to)
  • definite (specific)
  • indefinite (general)
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25
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simple sentence

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just a main clause

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modal verb

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verbs which indicate a level of possibility or obligation

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back-channelling

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speaker passively agrees with whats being said
- ‘yeah’ ‘mhmm’

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28
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velar

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tongue is pressed against back of mouth (Great)

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29
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past perfect

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had + ed (I had played)

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orthography

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study of writing and the rules of writing
- e.g. spelling, capitalisation and punctuation

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relative clause

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adds more information and begins with a relative pronoun

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dysphemism

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blunt way to talk about a taboo topic

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33
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post-alveolar

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tongue is slightly further back from alveolar ridge (SHut)

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34
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turn taking

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when speakers take turns to speak

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35
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Repair

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Speaker makes a mistake then corrects it
- ‘Joe was reading - I mean writing’

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36
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Present perfect progressive

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Have / has been -ing (I have been playing)

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Simple future

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Will (I will play)

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false starts

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speaker starts speaking, then stops, then restarts
- ‘John was eati- I saw John eating’

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phrase definition

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words which are centred around a head word

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main verb

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main action of a sentence

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auxiliary verb

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assists the main verb

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bilabial

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both lips used (b)

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intransitive verb

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no object

44
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Affricate

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starts as affricate and ends as plosive (cheese)

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adjacency pairs

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pairs of conventional pieces of speech (e.g - ‘hello’ ‘hiya!’)

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graphology

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study of how aesthetics are produced

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dynamic verb

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has a definitive start and end

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antonym

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opposite meaning

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base adjective

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simplest form of adjective

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palatal

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roof of mouth (Jungle)

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comparative adjective

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used to show a difference between two things

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hypernym

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umbrella term / generic

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simple present

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infinitive form (I play)

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semantic field

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group of words / phrases with a common meaning

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labiodental

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combines lips and teeth (Vase)

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material verb

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events / actions

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denotation

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dictionary definition

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plosive

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quick start and stop of air (D,T,P)

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Approximant

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mouth parts are close, but do not touch (R,W)

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parenthetical clause

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exists in parenthesis

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superlative adjective

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used to indicate the most extreme form

62
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synonym

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same meaning

63
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subordinating conjunction

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joins a subordinate clause

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copular verb

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linking

65
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Filler words

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words to gain thinking time
- ‘errr’ ‘ummm’

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grammar

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study of how language is structured with multiple words present

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minor sentence

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incomplete sentence (doesn’t contain a subject, object and verb)

68
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past progressive

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was + ing (I was playing)

69
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sentence types

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  • interrogative (question)
  • declarative (statement)
  • imperative (command)
  • exclamative (exclamation)
70
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types of phrase

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  • verb
  • noun
  • adjective
  • adverb
  • prepositional
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modal auxiliary

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verbs which both assist the main verb and indicate possibility

72
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collocates

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words that go together (salt and pepper)

73
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connotation

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ideas associated with a word

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Non-fluency features

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disrupt the flow of conversation

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negative face threatening acts

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attacks someone’s freedom, wants and desires

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concrete noun

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tangible objects

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transitive verb

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have a direct object

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inflection

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added to infinitive to change the tense of a word

79
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4 types of adverb

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  • time (when)
  • place (where)
  • manner (how)
  • frequency (how often)
80
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Grice’s maxims

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  • quality (must be truthful / accurate)
  • quantity (not too much / little)
  • relevance
  • manner (clear + polite, not ambiguous)
81
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Future perfect progressive

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Will have been -ing (I will have been playing)

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83
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Future perfect

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Will have -ed (I will have played)

84
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types of morphemes

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  • free / root (stands alone)
  • bound (cannot stand alone)
  • suffix bound (after a word)
  • prefix bound (before a word)
85
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Present perfect

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Have / has -ed (I have played)

86
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proper noun

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nouns which require capital letters, like places and names

87
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main clause

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core of the sentence which can stand alone

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dental

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placed on teeth (THink)

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compound sentence

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2 or more simple sentences joined by conjunction

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