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22 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Discourse
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Text type and structure, purpose, audience and context.
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Pragmatics
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Implied or understood meanings, connotations.
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Phonology
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Sounds; includes techniques like rhyme, alliteration etc.
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Graphology
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What it looks like: layout, fonts, bold/italics, presence of headline etc.
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Semantics
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Meanings (literal)
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Morphology
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Word structure
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Lexis
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Choice of words.
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Grammar
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Sentence structure and types.
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Acronym
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A lexicalised word made up from the initial letters of a phrase (sounded as a word).
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Initialism
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A word made from initial letters, each being pronounced.
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Clipping
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A new word produced by shortening an existing one.
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Affixation
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The addition of bound morphemes to an existing word.
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Prefixes
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The addition of a bound morpheme to the beginning of a root word.
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Suffixes
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The addition of a bound morpheme to the end of a root word.
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Idiom
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a speech form of an expression of a given language that is particular to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the meaning of its elements.
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Amelioration
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A word takes on a different, more positive, meaning, thereby gaining status.
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Pejoration
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A word takes on a different, more negative, meaning thereby losing status.
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Drift
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A process of linguistic change over a period of time.
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Obsolete
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No longer having any use.
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Overt prestige
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Refers to the status speakers get from using the most official and standard form of a language.
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Covert prestige
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Refers to the status speakers who choose not to adopt a standard dialect get from a particular group within society.
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Lexicon
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The vocabulary of a language.
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