transition defnitions

Question 1

Phoneme

Answer 1

Any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.

Question 2

Accent

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The way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words.

Question 3

Geographical

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Relating to geography, or to the geography of a particular area or place.

Question 4

Amelioration

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make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

Question 5

Inflection

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1) A change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.
2) The modulation of intonation or pitch in the voice.

Question 6

Demonstrative

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(of a determiner or pronoun) indicating the person or thing referred to (e.g. this, that, those ).

Question 7

Tense

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A set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.

Question 8

Inference

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A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Question 9

Adjacency pairs

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In linguistics, an adjacency pair is an example of conversational turn-taking. An adjacency pair is composed of two utterances by two speakers, one after the other. The speaking of the first utterance (the first-pair part, or the first turn) provokes a responding utterance (the second-pair part, or the second turn).

Question 10

Cataphoric reference

Answer 10

Cataphoric reference occurs when a word or phrase refers to something mentioned later in the discourse. Here are some examples of cataphoric reference: Although I phone HER every week, my mother still complains that I don’t keep in touch often enough.

Question 11

Syllable

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A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word.

Question 12

Lexis

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The total stock of words in a language. The level of language consisting of vocabulary, as opposed to grammar or syntax.

Question 13

Register

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In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation.

Question 14

Sociolect

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The dialect of a particular social class.

Question 15

Active voice

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A form or set of forms of a verb in which the subject is typically the person or thing performing the action and which can take a direct object (e.g. she loved him as opposed to the passive form he was loved ).

Question 16

‘Face’

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The concept of face refers to how an individual is seen by others.

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Implicature

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The action of implying a meaning beyond the literal sense of what is explicitly stated.

Question 18

Discourse

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written or spoken communication or debate

Question 19

Intertextuality

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the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.

Question 20

Dialect

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a particular form of a language which is specific to a specific region or social group

Question 21

Semantics

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the meaning of a word, phrase, or text

Question 22

Neology

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the use of a new word or expression or of an established word in a new or different sense

Question 23

Structure

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Language Structures refer to sentence-level comprehension of text, including how the arrangement of words within sentences impacts the meaning.

Question 24

Passive voice

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It’s the opposite of the active voice. For example “their silly little souls were easily devoured by her” as opposed to “she devoured their souls”.

Question 25

Politeness

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Polite means showing regards for others in manners, speech, and behaviour.

Question 26

Deixis

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Deixis refers to a word or phrase that shows the time, place or situation a speaker is in when talking. eg ""I" wish "YOU" had been "HERE" "YESTERDAY""

Question 27

Cohesion

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Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence.

Question 28

Graphology

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The study of handwriting, esp. as a clue to character, aptitudes, etc.

Question 29

Articulation

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The formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech.

Question 30

Pragmatics

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In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning.

Question 31

Pejoration

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The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration. (linguistics) The process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning over time.

Question 32

Grammar

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The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.

Question 33

Exclamative

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a word or sentence that denotes an exclamation

Question 34

Sentence function

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A sentence function refers to a speaker's purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause.

Question 35

Ideology

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any set of beliefs about languages as they are used in their social worlds

Question 36

Irony

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Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique.

Question 37

Anaphoric reference

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Anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning. "I met the baby once more, SHE looked particularly evil today."

Question 38

Phonology

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Phonology is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages.