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Interjection

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Words used to express surprise, delight (eg wow!)

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Low frequency words

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uncommon or obscure words

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High frequency word

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common words

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Grapheme

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a letter/symbol

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Lexeme

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single word or short phrase. also known as a lexical item

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Lexicon

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the words a person uses (their vocabulary)

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Semantics

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the analysis of word meanings and the relations between them

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denotation

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literal meaning of a word

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connotation

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the metaphorical/figurative meaning of a word

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etymology

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the study of the origin of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout history

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loan words

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words taken from other languages and not changed. also known as borrowings

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neologism

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new word, meaning or phrase

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coinage

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the invention of a new word/phrase

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paralanguage

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everything besides the language that conveys meaning (eg facial expressions, eye contact etc)

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pragmatics

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actual intended meaning or implied meaning in context, using verbal and non verbal cues

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discourse

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written or spoken communication

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pragmatic particle

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word/phrase/grapheme used to fill gaps in discourse

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tenor

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implied relationship between text producer and text receiver

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idiom

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group of words with a common meaning that doesn’t relate to the literal meaning

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phonology

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sounds or combinations of sounds within a language

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morphology

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how words can change based on a specific sentence

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figurative device

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non literal rhetorical device (eg simile, metaphor)

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figurative device

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non literal rhetorical device (eg simile, metaphor)

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exophoric reference

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a reference to something outside the text

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personal identity

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elements of identity personal to an individual (eg creative, animal lover etc)

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social identity

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elements of identity that can be grouped or categorised by society (eg gender, age, ethnicity)

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concrete noun

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physical thing which can be observed and measured

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abstract noun

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abstract concepts which can’t be measured (sadness, thought etc)

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common noun

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common names for physical things

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descriptive adjective

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used to express size, colour or shape

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evaluative adjective

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used to express judgement or bias (eg good, bad, ugly etc)

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comparative adjective

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compares nouns (eg the ‘better’ object)

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superlative adjective

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used to compare three or more nouns (eg the ‘best’ object)

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attributive adjective

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adjectives that come before the noun

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predicative adjective

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adjective that comes after the noun

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adjectival noun

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a noun that describes another noun

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mode

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method of communication

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audience

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demographic and relationship between producer and receiver

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field

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subject matter

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function

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the purpose of the text

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register

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the formality of the text

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dynamic verb

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describes an action

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stative verb

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describes a state of being

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modal verb

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verb used with another verb to express ability/permission

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primary / auxiliary verb

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expresses tenses or voices, accompanied by a main verb. in english this is be, have and do

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adverb of degree

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intensifiers or diminutives (eg really)

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adverb of manner

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typical adverbs (eg quickly, quietly, happily etc)

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adverb of frequency

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shows frequency (eg daily, weekly, often)

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convergence

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strategies to reduce social differences and be closer to the reader

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divergence

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strategies to increase social differences (usually to enforce power)

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non standard elements

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grammatical ‘errors’ (eg not using capital letters)

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information age

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shift in the 21st century from traditional industry to computers

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prosodic features

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features that appear when we put sounds together in connected speech

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non fluency features

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features that disrupt the flow of speech (eg mistake corrections, fillers and pauses)

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reflexive pronoun

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preceded by the other word it refers (eg she will do it ‘herself’)

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possessive pronoun

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used to indicate that something belongs to someone (his, hers etc)

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indefinite pronoun

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refers to one or more unspecified objects (anyone, something etc)

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relative pronoun

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used to join together clauses (who, which etc)

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demonstrative pronoun

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used to point to something (this, that etc)

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