Metalanguage Flashcards
Elision
omission of sounds or syllables eg: interesting -> intresting
vowel reduction
unstressed sound change
eg: were -> wa
insertion
adding sounds
eg: drink a bottle
flapping
voicing midvoiceless sounds
eg: water -> wader
Assimilation
sound changes to resemble near by sounds
eg: pancake -> pangkake
hypocoristic suffixation
shortening of a word and adding a suffix
relative-> relo
barbeque-> barbie
reduplication
rhyming patterning
eg: okey dokey, School Shmool
slang
metaphor, assimilation, word play, shortening -> shows familiararity
swearing
exclamatory interjection- ‘shit!’
insult- ‘i cant belive this shit’
social functions- ‘how the fuck are ya?’
dysphemism- tight arse
dysphemism
magnifies unpleasant meaning
cause offence for humour or abuse
taboo
socially prescbribed as improper/ unacceptable
ellipsis
grammatical elements omitted
eg: ‘/ you going?’
non-standard subject- verb agreement
verb and subject dont agree
‘we was just talkin’
determiner
Articles (such as ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’)
Possessive Determiners (such as ‘my’, ‘your’, ‘his’, ‘her’, ‘its’, ‘our’ and ‘their’)
Demonstrative Determiners (such as ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘those’ and ‘these’)
Quantifiers (such as ‘some’, ‘a few’, ‘many’, ‘a little’, ‘little’, ‘few’, ‘none’, etc)
pronouns
Subject pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they)
Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them)
Possessive pronouns (mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs)
