sac 2 (transcript analysis) Flashcards
register
formal
inform
discourse features
vjh
neologisms
newly made word or phrase, or a word with a new meaning
blends
beginning of one word and ending of another put together to make a new word.
initialisms
abbreviation of words as letters and pronounced as letters
acronyms
abbreviation of words as letters and pronounced as a word
shortenings
dropping a syllable from a word
compounding
combination of two words
conversion
gf
contraction
i have - i’ve (not formal)
collocations
combination of two words that are very commonly used together
borrowing
the use of another languages words in our language
commonisation
from proper noun to common
archaism
word not used anymore
word loss
many words are constantly being made and similarly words are being lost (eg. thy and thee)
patterning
simple lexical patterning: repetition of a word in its identical form with very simple changes
complex lexical patterning: involves words and any forms of them created through affixation
function
m
social purpose
underlying goals of a particular discourse within its situational context. often overlaps with the function but is not as obvious
face needs
positive - make people like you
negative - right to express opinion
spoken discourse features
prosodic features, openings ad closings, adjacency pairs, interrogative tags, overlapping speech, discourse particles, non-fluency feature(a pause, false start, voiced hesitation)
stylistic features
dbk
context
words and sentences that determine the meaning of a discourse
topic management
strategies to control the topic of the conversation the topics discussed in conversation and how they change between topics or stay on the same topic (well, guess what, by the way)
language features
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