Language levels for Paris Anthology Flashcards
adjancency pair
unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by 2 speakers
syntactic error
the inaccurate arrangement on words in a sentence
stress
emphasis on a word or phrase by sound
(conversational) repair
marked by a hesitation in speech where the speaker changes topic or ameliorates
empty subject
the personal pronoun from the start of a sentence is missing (e.g came up to the house… had breakfast in the hotel…)
jargon
language used in conversartion that outsiders possibly cannot understand
voiced hesitation
“erm..”
filler
“um, ah, okay, right, erm…”
phrase repetition
repetition of a phrase, possibly in hesitation
unfinished sentence
“theres a lot of people you dont (.) theres a lot of people you dont understand”
topic shift
a change in topic within a convo
overlap
interruption in speech between two people
elongation
extended length of sound in a vowel, usually marked in the transcript by ‘::’
superlative
exaggerated idea of something that gives extreme value
parallelism
creation of patterns though out a text, could be phonological or semantic for deliberate effect
hypophora
a rhetorical question is followed by an answer
syntax
order of words ( to create meaning)
pre-modification
when the adj describing the noun are placed b4 a noun (“a big, fat wad of money”)
post-modification
when the adj describing the noun is placed after the noun (“the wad of money, big and fat”)
analogy
explaining something in terms of something
extended metaphor
when a metaphor is continued throughout a text
lexical bundle
recurring sequence of word which, though repetition of use, work together
homonym
when a word has multiple meanings
archaism
a word that has fallen out of modern use
binary opposites
hot/cold, live/die
collocation
words that naturally go together in terms of general knowledge such as ‘fish and chips’
dramatic irony
a situation where the audience fully graps the situation but not yet by the characters in the play
anthropomorphism
when an animal takes human characteristics
ambiguity
more than one possible outcome of a story
neologism
a newly invented word
compound words
‘turn-taking’
tagline
small print sentence that follows a headline
semantic shift
change of meaning across time ( ‘gay’ use to mean happy)
back channelling
the process of accepting or denying noises in responses to the other person
false start
when the speaker restarts the phrase
eye rhyme
a rhyme that looks like should rhyme but does not sound the same
internal rhyme
when the rhyme happens in the middle instead of the end
