Vocab Flashcards
prosody
acoustic and rhythmic elements of language
dipthong
two vowels combined into the same syllable
semantic field
group of words with related meaning
denotation
the dictionary definition
Hypernym
A broader term
Eg colour is a hypernym of red
Hyponnyms
A specific term
Eg fork is a hyponym of cutlery
Sociolect
Dialect of a particular social class
Idiolect
Personal speech habits/ patterns
Dialect
Regional language
Neology
Use of a word with an already established meaning in a different way, meaning something different
Semantic change
A change in the meaning of a word over time
Morphology
Study of the structure of words
Syntax
Arrangement of words in a sentence
Morpheme
The smallest component of a word
Head word
The word most essential to the meaning of a sentence
Modification
A word that provides more information about another word in a sentence
Active voice
When the subject of the sentence is doing the action
Passive voice
When the subject of a sentence is receiving the action
Coordination
Combining two ideas/ sentences of equal value
Subordination
Connecting two related ideas in order to show one being more important
Sentence moods
Indicates the type of sentence (eg, question, command etc)
Word classes
Group of words with the same behavior (eg noun, verb)
Phoneme
A small consonant that distinguishes the word (eg tan, tap, tab)
Implicature
Implying a meaning beyond what is literally stated
Inference
A conclusion reached based off the given evidence
Deixis
indications of a word
Cooperative principles
assumption that participants in a conversation are speaking so that communication is successful and truthful
Discourse structure
the way a text as a whole is arranged
Discourse marker
a shift in communication (eg well, right then)
Adjuncts
adds extra information onto the essential part of a sentence
disjuncts
word or phrase that explicitly expresses someone’s attitude towards the manner or content of the text or sentence
Narrative structures
form used to tell a story
Anaphoric referencing
referring to something that already happened in a text
Cataphoric referencing
clues in a text that refer to something that will happen later in a text
Intertextuality
how texts are related to each other and provide context to the meanings behind them
Critical discourse analysis
the study/ analysis of speech and texts
Typographical features
use of a font to emphasise a meaning
Orthographical features
conventions of a language, eg spelling and punctuation
Multimodal texts
texts that communicate meaning via more than one semiotic
Semiotics
study of making meaning from signs
Audience positioning
the relationship between the audience and the text intended by the author
Discourse
communication between people with a common aim or interest
Foreground
where something is placed in order to show significnce
Genre
category of content based off a common style
Mode
literary mood/ manner that is not tied to a genre
Purpose
the aim/ reason of a text
