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prosody

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acoustic and rhythmic elements of language

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dipthong

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two vowels combined into the same syllable

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3
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semantic field

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group of words with related meaning

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denotation

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the dictionary definition

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Hypernym

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A broader term
Eg colour is a hypernym of red

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Hyponnyms

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A specific term
Eg fork is a hyponym of cutlery

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7
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Sociolect

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Dialect of a particular social class

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Idiolect

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Personal speech habits/ patterns

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Dialect

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Regional language

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Neology

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Use of a word with an already established meaning in a different way, meaning something different

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Semantic change

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A change in the meaning of a word over time

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Morphology

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Study of the structure of words

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Syntax

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Arrangement of words in a sentence

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14
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Morpheme

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The smallest component of a word

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15
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Head word

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The word most essential to the meaning of a sentence

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16
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Modification

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A word that provides more information about another word in a sentence

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17
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Active voice

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When the subject of the sentence is doing the action

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Passive voice

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When the subject of a sentence is receiving the action

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Coordination

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Combining two ideas/ sentences of equal value

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Subordination

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Connecting two related ideas in order to show one being more important

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Sentence moods

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Indicates the type of sentence (eg, question, command etc)

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Word classes

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Group of words with the same behavior (eg noun, verb)

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Phoneme

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A small consonant that distinguishes the word (eg tan, tap, tab)

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Implicature

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Implying a meaning beyond what is literally stated

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Inference

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A conclusion reached based off the given evidence

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Deixis

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indications of a word

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Cooperative principles

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assumption that participants in a conversation are speaking so that communication is successful and truthful

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Discourse structure

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the way a text as a whole is arranged

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Discourse marker

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a shift in communication (eg well, right then)

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Adjuncts

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adds extra information onto the essential part of a sentence

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disjuncts

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word or phrase that explicitly expresses someone’s attitude towards the manner or content of the text or sentence

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Narrative structures

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form used to tell a story

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Anaphoric referencing

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referring to something that already happened in a text

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Cataphoric referencing

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clues in a text that refer to something that will happen later in a text

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Intertextuality

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how texts are related to each other and provide context to the meanings behind them

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Critical discourse analysis

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the study/ analysis of speech and texts

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Typographical features

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use of a font to emphasise a meaning

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Orthographical features

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conventions of a language, eg spelling and punctuation

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Multimodal texts

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texts that communicate meaning via more than one semiotic

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Semiotics

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study of making meaning from signs

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Audience positioning

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the relationship between the audience and the text intended by the author

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Discourse

A

communication between people with a common aim or interest

43
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Foreground

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where something is placed in order to show significnce

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Genre

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category of content based off a common style

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Mode

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literary mood/ manner that is not tied to a genre

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Purpose

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the aim/ reason of a text

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