terminology Flashcards
What phrase is used when ‘and’ or ‘but’ is used to start a sentence?
Syntactically fronted coordinating conjunction
What is lexis? Examples?
Types of words (field specific lexis, register, slag terms, terms of endearment)
What is grammar? Examples?
Ways words are constructed and the roles they play (morphology, morphemes, prefixes, suffixes)
What is syntax? Examples?
Ways words, phrases and clauses are arranged/ ordered within sentences and how sentences relate to one another (listing, triadic structures, anaphora, parallelism)
What is phonology? Examples?
The sound effects of words (phonemes, diphthong, voicing, elision, alliteration)
What is semantics? Examples?
Particular features that influence meaning and interpretation (denotation, connotation, synonyms, simile, metaphor)
Examples of the spoken mode?
Spontaneity, fillers, hesitation indicators, false starts, topic markers, contractions
What is pragmatics? Examples?
When language is inextricably bound to context (exophoric referencing, endophoric referencing, illocutionary force and perlocutionary effects)
What is discourse? Examples?
When texts and ideas interact through language as part of a wider social discourse (in written mode, narrative perspective and voice, reader positioning, register, tenor)
What is literariness? Examples?
A texts proclivity to adopt more conventions that align with literature (metaphors, similes, alliteration, rhetoric, personification)
What is graphology? Examples?
The visual arrangement and representation of language on the page (typeface, font, images, paragraphs, format)
Define phoneme
A basic unit of sound
Define diphthong
A vowel sound that is a combination of two separate sounds, where a speaker glides from one sound to another
