Terms Flashcards
Key Terms
Cognate
Relates to another word in meaning
Discourse
The meaning of DISCOURSE is
a) verbal interchange of ideas
b) The height of irony
c) To talk incessantly
Graphophonics
a) Relating to the relationship between how words or characters look and how they sound.
b) Recorded sounds
Language Registers
a). the register is defined as how a speaker uses language differently in different circumstances
b) File for teachers to mark their language capability.
Lexical ambiguity
a. Lexical ambiguity is the presence of two or more possible meanings for a single word. It’s also called semantic ambiguity or homonymy
b). the presence of the same meaning for a multiple words.
Lexicon
a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary
Morphology
the study of words, their structure, and their relation to other words in a language.
Phoneme
phoneme, in linguistics, smallest unit of speech distinguishing one word (or word element) from another, as the element p in “tap,” which separates that word from “tab,” “tag,” and “tan.”
Phonics
a method of teaching beginners to read and pronounce words by learning the phonetic value of letters, letter groups, and especially syllables
Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of sentences and words.
Pragmatics
the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used, including such matters as deixis, the taking of turns in conversation, text organization, presupposition, and implicature.
Semantics
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.
Syntax
the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences
