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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 or social group

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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
Describing an object at the upper and lowest of its quality eg tallest smallest highest
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Comparative adjectives
Used to compare the differences between objects eg larger smaller faster higher
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Epithet
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
Abbreviated version of a word eg restos shorted for restaurants
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Proper noun
Name for a specific place person or thing-capitalised
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Abstract noun
Something that is non physical you can not deprive it with your senses eg sadness adulthood government
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Concrete noun
Physical thing person or place that can be perceived with senses eg pencil dog
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Diegetic sound
Sound that’s already in the video
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Anecdotal humor
Personal stories that may be true or partly true but embellished
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Blue humor
Sexual situations or coarse jokes or drugs alcohol- unsubtle
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Dark humour
Depressing- death
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Dry humor
Impassive expressionless
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Epigrammatic humor
Witty humour eg too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words
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High/highbrow humour
Humour pertaining to cultured and sophisticated themes
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Hyperbolic humour
Comic presentation - exaggeration and outsized characterisation
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Ironic humour
Meaning is opposite to the literal meaning
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Juvenile humour
Humour involving childish themes such as pranks name calling or immature behaviour
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Parodic humour
Comic imitation often intended to ridicule an author or artist or genre
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Satirical humor
Mocks human weakness or aspects of society
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Self deprecating humour
Targets themselves for comic effect
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Backchannelling
Minimal responses to show engagement ie oh yeah hmmm yeah
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Bathos
Sudden change from an important subject to a ridiculous one Anticlimax- disappointing ending
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Bildungsroman
Coming of age
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Asynchronous communication
Interactions online where pps responses are sent as and when they are able to reply rather than instantly
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Chronological
Written in an order
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Didactic
Teaching
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Endophoric storytelling
Telling a story at the same place it happened
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Epistemic modal verbs
Modal verbs that show possibility eg could may
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Exophoric story telling
Recounting a story at a different location it took place
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Cathartic
Release of emotions through an activity
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Hendiadys
Expression of a single idea through 2 words connected with and
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Holographic puns
Words that have more then one meaning but spell the same
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Homophonic puns
Puns based on words that sound the same but are spelt different
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Modifying adjective
Add adds detail to the head noun in noun phrase
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Paralinguistic features
Vocal signals behind basic verbal message eg laughter pitch speed of speech
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Rebus
Pictograms or symbols to designate a word eg emojis
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Sensory language
Senses of appeal to reader and evoke mood
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Syndetic listing
A list joined by conjunction eg and or
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Asyndetic listing
Listing without and so commas
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Polysyllabic
Containing more then one syllable
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Positive face
An individual’s desire to be liked and admired- self esteem
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Positive politeness theory
Appealing to someone’s positive face- making some one feel good
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Negative face
Individual protects their personal rights and freedom
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Negative politeness
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
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
Orders, demands, takes away someone’s freedom,feels imposed upon We may feel offended
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Maxim quality
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
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
where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion
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Maxim manner
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
They flout it
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Low frequency lexis
Formal words not used every day
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Morphology
Word formation
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Anaphoric reference
Making reference back to something that has already been established previously- often using pronouns to an already established reference point ie using she about a woman
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Orthographicical features
The features of the writing system ie spelling, capitalisation, symbols, punctuation
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Cataphoric reference
Making reference to something that is unidentified in the text
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Euphonious
Soft sound
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Deontic modal verb
Obligation- should, must , have to, cannot

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