Termanology Flashcards
Modal auxiliary verbs
Possibility, certainty (will, would, may)
Epistemic modality
Sentences/ phrases that express possibility, probability, certainty
Deontic modality
Sentences/ phrases that express necessity and obligation
Idiom
Phrase that doesn’t mean it’s literal meaning (pull yourself together)
Parenthesis
Added as an explanation to the sentence, marked by commas or brackets or dashes
Antithesis
Juxtaposition, contrasting ideas right next to eachother
Ideology
A belief that a group holds
Polysemic
A word with multiple meanings
Denotation
Dictionary definition
Lexical field
Main subject of the text
Collocation
Multiple words often found together and have a distinct meaning
Semantic field
Pattern of words with similar meanings
Compound
Word formed from two other words
Valediction
Saying farewell
stative verbs
Actions that we cant see, exists beyond physical state.
dynamic verbs
physical actions that can be seen.
proper nouns
names, usually begins with capital letters
common nouns
all nouns except proper nouns
concrete nouns
things that exist physically, objects that we can see and touch
abstract noun
doesn’t exist physically, ideas, feelings
collective nouns
group of animals, people, objects
superlatives adjectives
adjectives generally formed by adding the -est inflection
comparative adjectives
generally formed by adding -er inflection
attributive adjective
adjectives positioned after a noun, describes
predicative adjective
adjective comes before the noun, pre-modifies the noun
transitive verbs
must be followed by an object in which the verb happens to
intransitive verbs
describes position or motion
auxiliary verbs
helps the verbs, has, do, be, did
modal verbs
expresses likelihood
the
the definite article
determiners
the, a, that, this
grammatical cohesion
using adverbs at the start of paragraphs or sentences to link the previous information, similarly, furthermore
lexical cohesion
Words in the discourse relate to each other throughout
prepositions
shows relationship between words e.g., time, distance, direction
infinitive
normally follows to, base form of a verb
active voice
subject is the main focus and performs the action
passive voice
object is the main focus and something happens to it
Accommodation
Where a speaker adapts to another’s accent, dialect
Adjacency pairs
Pair of utterances in a conversation that go together
Affordance
Language and behavioural choices provided by technology
Agenda setting
Speaker sets up the main topic of conversation
Analogical overextension
Associating objects that aren’t related but have one or more features in common
Anchored relationship
Online relationship but the speakers know eachother irl
Article
Determiner a and the