u4a1 Flashcards
1
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informal purposes
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- encouraging intimacy, solidarity, equality
- promoting linguistic innovation
- supporting in-group membership
- politeness strategies
- building rapport
- negotiating social taboos
2
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formal purposes
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- reinforcing social distance and authority
- establishing expertise
- clarifying, manipulating, obfuscating
- politeness strategies
- building rapport
- negotiating social taboos
3
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6 functions of language
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referential - informative
metalanguistic
poetic - aesthetic
conative - commanding
phatic - social
emotive
4
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overt + covert prestige
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overt: standard, power
covert: non-standard, solidarity
5
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perceptions of australian national identity
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- anti-authoritarianism
- anti-intellectualism
- connection to land + Country
- egalitarianism
- mateship
- multiculturalism
6
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roles of Aboriginal Englishes
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- attend to positive face, marking SOLIDARITY
- reflect individual + group IDENTITY
- mark links to tradition and CULTURE
- maintain HOME LANGUAGE
7
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phonological features of Aboriginal Englishes
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- variability in stop voicing
- replacement of fricatives with stops
- deletion of /h/ in initial position
- hypercorrection of /h/
8
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morphological features of Aboriginal Englishes
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- omission of copula be
- use of ‘seen’ and ‘come’ as simple past of see and come
- use of ‘was’ rather than ‘were’
- double negatives
- non-use of plural -s
9
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markers of respect in Aboriginal Englishes
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indirectness, eye contact, silence
10
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equal and unequal tenor
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equal = balanced
unequal = one is dominant
11
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factors of cohesion
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- lexical choice (synonymy, antonymy)
- information flow (end, front focus, clefting)
- deictics, anaphoric + cataphoric referencing
- repetition, substitution, ellipsis
12
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factors of coherence
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- cohesion
- inference
- logical ordering
- formatting
- consistency + conventions
13
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features of spoken discourse
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- prosodic features
- openings + closings
- adjacency pairs
- overlapping speech
- interrogative tags
- discourse particles
- non-fluency features
14
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strategies of spoken discourse
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- topic management (initiating, changing, developing topic)
- turn-taking (taking, holding, passing floor)
- minimal responses
- cohesion + coherence