Textual Variations

Question 1

What is lexis?

Answer 1

Words and their origins

Question 2

What is a lexicon?

Answer 2

The vocabulary of a language

Question 3

What is semantics?

Answer 3

Meanings of words, on their own and in relation to other words

Question 4

What is a semantic field?

Answer 4

A pattern in a text of words with similar meanings

Question 5

What is morphology?

Answer 5

The study of how words changed to indicate features such as verb tense, compariosn in adjectives, etc

Question 6

What is syntax?

Answer 6

The order that words are in within a sentence

Question 7

What is pragmatics?

Answer 7

The gap between sentence meaning and speaker meaning (implicatures)

Question 8

What is discourse?

Answer 8

The overall structure of a text or transcripted conversation

Question 9

What is orthography?

Answer 9

The spelling convention of words in a language

Question 10

What is phonology?

Answer 10

Studying the sounds of a language and their effects, for example, stresses, pace, consonants

Question 11

What is graphology?

Answer 11

The way that a text looks and the way that it has been laid out

Question 12

What is defamiliarised language?

Answer 12

Langauge that is not used in everyday life, unusual, used in advertising to catch peoples’ eye

Question 13

What is mutation?

Answer 13

Completely changing a word to put it into a different tense, for example, changing ‘break’ to ‘broke’ (vowel sound has been changed from ‘a’ to ‘o’)

Question 14

What are bound morphemes?

Answer 14

Things that only exist as part of a word, for example, -ing cannot be a word on its own

Question 15

What are free morphemes?

Answer 15

A word that is able to stand on its own, such as auxiliary verbs, modal verbs and nouns

Question 16

What are attributive adjectives?

Answer 16

Adjectives that come before the noun and pre-modify it (‘the green door’)

Question 17

What are predicative adjectives?

Answer 17

Adjectives that come after the verb and modify the noun (‘the door was green’)

Question 18

What are determiners?

Answer 18

Words that determine the number or status of the noun

Question 19

What is a concrete noun?

Answer 19

Something that can be sensed by at least one of the 5 senses

Question 20

What is an abstract noun?

Answer 20

Something that is a feeling, rather than a physical sensation

Question 21

What is syntactic parallelism?

Answer 21

When parallels are seen between grammatical units

Question 22

What are adjacency pairs?

Answer 22

Using question and answer in a written text, where the first person says something and the second persons answers it

Question 23

What is synthetic personalisation?

Answer 23

When the text producer sets up a fake personal relationship with the audience

Question 24

What is a clause?

Answer 24

A group of words centered around a verb, they make up sentences and can be connected through coordination or subordination

Question 25

What is a complement?

Answer 25

A clause element (noun or adjective phrase) that tells you more about the subject or object