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Terminology Flashcards

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Stories are waiting m-what type of sound is footsteps’ ‘pigeons scatter’

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Digetic sound- sound where the origin is seen or implied
They are echoed on screen in the images

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Parantheses

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Brackets

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Americanism

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A word or expression characterised in American English e.g sucker

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Non diegetic sound

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Sound that is added- ie music

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Epizeuxis

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Repetition of a word right after each other e.g never never never

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Declarative sentence

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A statement

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Dialect

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Lexical form to a geographical region eg sidewalk

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Cacophonous

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Harsh mix of sounds

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Euphemism

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A politer way of saying something eg she’s passed away instead of she’s dead

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Exclamative sentence

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Explanation mark to emphasis

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of a clause

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False start

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  • Speaker returns to the start of a phrase to rephrase it
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Fillers

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Words without purpose to fill in the gaps or stall

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Hedges

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Vague language to show uncertainty eg very or a bit

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High frequency lexis

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Words that appear often In every day speech or often in speakers language

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Fricative alliteration

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Alliteration of f or v sounds

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Idiom

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Expression that holds a different meaning to its literal
Eg beating round the bush

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Hypophpra

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Speaker raises a question then immediately answers it after

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Intensifier

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A word that emphasis another eg highly very really

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Imperative

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Commands

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Journalese

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A style of rhetoric associated with the popular media- often hyperbolic

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Zoomorphism

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Humans given animal qualities

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Utterance

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Used instead of sentences in spoken

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Sociolect

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Trying to speak to fit into society

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Superlative adjectives

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Describing an object at the upper and lowest of its quality eg tallest smallest highest

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Comparative adjectives

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Used to compare the differences between objects eg larger smaller faster higher

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Epithet

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Adjective or phrase describing a quality or attribute regarded as a characteristic of the person eg old people are very dirty

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Contraction

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Abbreviated version of a word eg restos shorted for restaurants

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Proper noun

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Name for a specific place person or thing-capitalised

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Abstract noun

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Something that is non physical you can not deprive it with your senses eg sadness adulthood government

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Concrete noun

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Physical thing person or place that can be perceived with senses eg pencil dog

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Diegetic sound

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Sound that’s already in the video

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Anecdotal humor

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Personal stories that may be true or partly true but embellished

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Blue humor

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Sexual situations or coarse jokes or drugs alcohol- unsubtle

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Dark humour

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Depressing- death

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Dry humor

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Impassive expressionless

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Epigrammatic humor

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Witty humour eg too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words

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High/highbrow humour

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Humour pertaining to cultured and sophisticated themes

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Hyperbolic humour

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Comic presentation - exaggeration and outsized characterisation

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Ironic humour

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Meaning is opposite to the literal meaning

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Juvenile humour

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Humour involving childish themes such as pranks name calling or immature behaviour

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Parodic humour

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Comic imitation often intended to ridicule an author or artist or genre

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Satirical humor

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Mocks human weakness or aspects of society

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Self deprecating humour

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Targets themselves for comic effect

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Backchannelling

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Minimal responses to show engagement ie oh yeah hmmm yeah

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Bathos

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Sudden change from an important subject to a ridiculous one
Anticlimax- disappointing ending

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Bildungsroman

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Coming of age

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Asynchronous communication

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Interactions online where pps responses are sent as and when they are able to reply rather than instantly

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Chronological

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Written in an order

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Didactic

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Teaching

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Endophoric storytelling

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Telling a story at the same place it happened

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Epistemic modal verbs

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Modal verbs that show possibility eg could may

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Exophoric story telling

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Recounting a story at a different location it took place

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Cathartic

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Release of emotions through an activity

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Hendiadys

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Expression of a single idea through 2 words connected with and

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Holographic puns

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Words that have more then one meaning but spell the same

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Homophonic puns

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Puns based on words that sound the same but are spelt different

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Modifying adjective

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Add adds detail to the head noun in noun phrase

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Paralinguistic features

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Vocal signals behind basic verbal message eg laughter pitch speed of speech

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Rebus

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Pictograms or symbols to designate a word eg emojis

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Sensory language

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Senses of appeal to reader and evoke mood

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Syndetic listing

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A list joined by conjunction eg and or

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Asyndetic listing

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Listing without and so commas

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Polysyllabic

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Containing more then one syllable

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Positive face

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An individual’s desire to be liked and admired- self esteem

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Positive politeness theory

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Appealing to someone’s positive face- making some one feel good

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Negative face

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Individual protects their personal rights and freedom

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Negative politeness

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Making sure someone feels as if they’re nor being used appealing to someone’s negative face

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Positive face threatening act

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Does not care about someone’s positive face
Such as interruptions expressions of violent topics emotional topics ridiculing

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Negative face threatening act

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Orders, demands, takes away someone’s freedom,feels imposed upon
We may feel offended

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Maxim quality

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where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.

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Maxim quantity

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one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more

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Maxim relation

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where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion

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Maxim manner

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when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one avoids obscurity and ambiguity.

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What do you say when someone isn’t showing a maxim

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They flout it

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Low frequency lexis

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Formal words not used every day

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