U3: AOS1: Informal language Flashcards

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Register

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How we alter our language to suit the situation

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Tenor

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How the relationships between the participants can be reflected in the features of language that they use.

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What are the major functions of language?

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Referential: Information
Emotive: Emotions
Conative: Questions
Phatic: Small talk
Metalinguistic: Describes language
Poetic: Focuses on the message

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Phonological Patterning

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Adding emphasis to make texts more memorable and engaging.
-Alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm and rhyme

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Morphological Patterning

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Can make speech more efficient.
-Affixation, abbreviation, shortening, compounding, blending, backformation, initialism, acronym and contraction

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Sematic Patterning

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Can add nuance and depth, humour.
-figurative language

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Colloquial language

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Casual and relaxed and relaxed informal language that is often location-specific

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Slang

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Newly formed words and phrases that are commonly found in very informal contexts.

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Taboo Language

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Considered inappropriate or insulting by a large portion of society

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Dysphemism

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An inappropriate word or phrase that is intentionally used in place of a
more neutral word, to intensify the impact of the utterance.

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Swearing

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Terms that are deemed rude and offensive

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Emoticons

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Visual pictures that are created using keyboard symbols

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Emojis

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Small icons or pictures that are embedded into digital texts.

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Features of colloquial language

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Connected speech processes, idiomatic expressions, contraction, abbreviation, informal syntax or grammar, ellipsis, regionally specific language, shortening of names

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Connected speech processes

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Words are reduced or modified.

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Intimacy

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A sense of closeness and connection between individuals

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Solidarity

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A feeling of unity between individuals, based on shared experience or purpose

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Equality

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A sense that individuals in a particular exchange are of equal status, deserving of mutual respect

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Linguistic innovation

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The manipulation of existing language features to create something new, such as new terms, expressions and pronunciations

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Social harmony

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A positive social environment in which all individuals feel comfortable, respected and at ease with each other

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Social taboos

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Topics that are considered uncomfortable or controversial, and are typically avoided in social contexts.

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Rapport

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A sense of friendliness, harmony and shared understanding in a relationship

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In-Group Membership

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A sense of belonging to any kind of social group

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Purposes of informal language
Intimacy, solidarity, equality, promoting social harmony, negotiating social taboos and building rapport, supporting in-group membership, promoting linguistic innovation
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Intimacy
Sense of closeness, familiarity and personal connection. -Informal language allows for authentic connection.
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Solidarity
Creating a sense of unity or shared purpose within a group of people. -Inclusive language, "We got this!"
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Equality
Notion that all participants are perceived and treated as equals.
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Promoting social harmony
Using language that avoids conflict, is respectful of other's feelings and promotes shared understandings.
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Negotiating social taboos
Navigating topics that are often considered sensitive or controversial.
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Supporting in-group memberships
Using language that promotes membership of in-groups -Context specific graphemes,
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Promoting linguistic innovation
manipulation of language to create variations, neologisms... etc.