Language levels for Paris Anthology

Question 1

adjancency pair

Answer 1

unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by 2 speakers

Question 2

syntactic error

Answer 2

the inaccurate arrangement on words in a sentence

Question 3

stress

Answer 3

emphasis on a word or phrase by sound

Question 4

(conversational) repair

Answer 4

marked by a hesitation in speech where the speaker changes topic or ameliorates

Question 5

empty subject

Answer 5

the personal pronoun from the start of a sentence is missing (e.g came up to the house… had breakfast in the hotel…)

Question 6

jargon

Answer 6

language used in conversartion that outsiders possibly cannot understand

Question 7

voiced hesitation

Answer 7

“erm..”

Question 8

filler

Answer 8

“um, ah, okay, right, erm…”

Question 9

phrase repetition

Answer 9

repetition of a phrase, possibly in hesitation

Question 10

unfinished sentence

Answer 10

“theres a lot of people you dont (.) theres a lot of people you dont understand”

Question 11

topic shift

Answer 11

a change in topic within a convo

Question 12

overlap

Answer 12

interruption in speech between two people

Question 13

elongation

Answer 13

extended length of sound in a vowel, usually marked in the transcript by ‘::’

Question 14

superlative

Answer 14

exaggerated idea of something that gives extreme value

Question 15

parallelism

Answer 15

creation of patterns though out a text, could be phonological or semantic for deliberate effect

Question 16

hypophora

Answer 16

a rhetorical question is followed by an answer

Question 17

syntax

Answer 17

order of words ( to create meaning)

Question 18

pre-modification

Answer 18

when the adj describing the noun are placed b4 a noun (“a big, fat wad of money”)

Question 19

post-modification

Answer 19

when the adj describing the noun is placed after the noun (“the wad of money, big and fat”)

Question 20

analogy

Answer 20

explaining something in terms of something

Question 21

extended metaphor

Answer 21

when a metaphor is continued throughout a text

Question 22

lexical bundle

Answer 22

recurring sequence of word which, though repetition of use, work together

Question 23

homonym

Answer 23

when a word has multiple meanings

Question 24

archaism

Answer 24

a word that has fallen out of modern use

Question 25

binary opposites

Answer 25

hot/cold, live/die

Question 26

collocation

Answer 26

words that naturally go together in terms of general knowledge such as ‘fish and chips’

Question 27

dramatic irony

Answer 27

a situation where the audience fully graps the situation but not yet by the characters in the play

Question 28

anthropomorphism

Answer 28

when an animal takes human characteristics

Question 29

ambiguity

Answer 29

more than one possible outcome of a story

Question 30

neologism

Answer 30

a newly invented word

Question 31

compound words

Answer 31

‘turn-taking’

Question 32

tagline

Answer 32

small print sentence that follows a headline

Question 33

semantic shift

Answer 33

change of meaning across time ( ‘gay’ use to mean happy)

Question 34

back channelling

Answer 34

the process of accepting or denying noises in responses to the other person

Question 35

false start

Answer 35

when the speaker restarts the phrase

Question 36

eye rhyme

Answer 36

a rhyme that looks like should rhyme but does not sound the same

Question 37

internal rhyme

Answer 37

when the rhyme happens in the middle instead of the end