Textual Variations Flashcards
What is lexis?
Words and their origins
What is a lexicon?
The vocabulary of a language
What is semantics?
Meanings of words, on their own and in relation to other words
What is a semantic field?
A pattern in a text of words with similar meanings
What is morphology?
The study of how words changed to indicate features such as verb tense, compariosn in adjectives, etc
What is syntax?
The order that words are in within a sentence
What is pragmatics?
The gap between sentence meaning and speaker meaning (implicatures)
What is discourse?
The overall structure of a text or transcripted conversation
What is orthography?
The spelling convention of words in a language
What is phonology?
Studying the sounds of a language and their effects, for example, stresses, pace, consonants
What is graphology?
The way that a text looks and the way that it has been laid out
What is defamiliarised language?
Langauge that is not used in everyday life, unusual, used in advertising to catch peoples’ eye
What is mutation?
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’)
What are bound morphemes?
Things that only exist as part of a word, for example, -ing cannot be a word on its own
What are free morphemes?
A word that is able to stand on its own, such as auxiliary verbs, modal verbs and nouns
What are attributive adjectives?
Adjectives that come before the noun and pre-modify it (‘the green door’)
What are predicative adjectives?
Adjectives that come after the verb and modify the noun (‘the door was green’)
What are determiners?
Words that determine the number or status of the noun
What is a concrete noun?
Something that can be sensed by at least one of the 5 senses
What is an abstract noun?
Something that is a feeling, rather than a physical sensation
What is syntactic parallelism?
When parallels are seen between grammatical units
What are adjacency pairs?
Using question and answer in a written text, where the first person says something and the second persons answers it
What is synthetic personalisation?
When the text producer sets up a fake personal relationship with the audience
What is a clause?
A group of words centered around a verb, they make up sentences and can be connected through coordination or subordination
