Section B Flashcards
What are the social purposes of a text
Encourage itimacy, solidarity or equality
Promote linguistic innovation
Support in-group membership
Reinforce social distance
Establish expertise
Promote social harmony, negotiate social taboos or build rapport
Clarifying, manipulating or obfuscating
Shortenings
Shortening of a word eg: caf/ barb
Coloquialism/ acronyms
Words that are said in certain groups or cultures that only they may understand
Eg mate / yeet / dunk
Non-standard lexemes
Lol / ok
Expletives
Swear words
Affixation
Antivaccer
Pre workout
Diminitive ending
Ending in -ie or -o
Fragments
Not full sentences
Eg brilliant!
Ellipsis
Eliding a word from a sentence
Coordination
Eg and
So
But
Interrogative tags
You did you hwk, didnt you ?
Things to use in a register paragraph
Relationships /Expectations /Gravity
Lexical choice - jargon/expletives/elevated
Standard/ conventional - punctuation and orthography
Euphemism/Dysphemisms
Things to use in a context paragraph
Text type
Audience
Situational/ cultural contexts
Mode
Social purposes
Encouraging - intimacy/ solidarity/ equality Promoting linguistic innovation Supporting in group membership Reinforcing social distance/ authority Establish expertise Build rapport/ negotiating social taboos Clarifying, manipulating or obfuscating
Spoken discourse features
I. - interrogative tags
D. - discourse particles
O. - openings
O. - overlapping
N. - non-fluency features
A. - adjacency pairs
