Lexis Flashcards
Colloquial
Informal words or phrases that we often use in comfortable environments.
Taboo language/ expletives
Linguistical term swearing
Socialect
Describes language used by a particular social group.
Clipping
Shorting of words.
Neologisms
New words that enter the language e.g selfie
Hedging
Where we softened the force of an utterance by saying phrases such as ‘kind of’ and ‘sort of’.
Abbreviations
Shortened forms of words. E.g ‘adj’ for ‘adjective’.
Initialism
The first letter of several words is taken and forms a capitalised words. E.g FBI
Collocation
Familiar phrases. E.g bride and groom
Jargon
Specialist words or phrases used by a particular group or proffsion. E.g principal, suspect
Honorific
A title. E.g Mr, Mrs, sir
Hypocorism
‘Pet name’ . E.g sweetie
Formality
How we appear is certain situations.
Vulganism
Language which falls short of taboo, but is nevertheless rather coarse and not normally used in ‘polite’ society.
Acronym
The abbreviation is formed from letters of other words to formulate new words e.g ram.
Connotation
Word association
Denorations
Definitions of words, as the dictionary definition.
Synonyms
Words or phrases that means the same as another word or phrases.
Antonyms
Words opposites
Generalisation
Extension and broadening of a word
Specialisation
Narrowing of a word.
Amelioration
Words meaning improvements and becomes elevated
Pejuation
Words meaning worsens and degenerates.
Lexical ambiguity
When a word has many possible meanings
