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39 Cards in this Set
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Accent |
A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class. |
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Adjacency Pair |
A unit of conversation that contains an exchange of one turn each by two speakers. The turns are functionally related to each other |
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Anaphoric Reference |
A word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning. |
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Anecdote |
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. |
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Antithesis |
A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. |
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Assonance |
The repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence. |
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Back Channel |
A sound or gesture made to give continuity to a conversation by a person who is listening to another. |
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Cataphoric Reference |
A word in a text refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand. |
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Clipping |
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Colloquialism |
A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation. |
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Contraction |
A shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe |
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Crescendo |
The climactic point or moment in such an increase |
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Deixis |
Words or phrases that can only be understood from the context of the text or utterance where they are found are deictic: |
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Determiner |
A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every |
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Discourse Marker |
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A word or phrase whose function is to organize discourse into segments, for example well or I mean. |
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Ellision |
The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking |
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Ellipsis |
The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues. |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. |
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Filler |
One of a class of items that can fit into a given slot in a construction. |
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Goffman's Facework |
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Grice's Maxims |
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Hedge |
To avoid a rigid commitment by softening the message of an utterance. |
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Homophone |
Two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |
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Idiom |
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words |
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Modal Verb |
An auxiliary verb that expresses necessity or possibility. |
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Noun Phrase |
A word or group of words containing a noun and functioning in a sentence as subject, object, or prepositional object. |
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Onomatopoeia |
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
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Paralingustic Features |
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Parenthetical Structure |
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Phatic talk |
Denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feelings, goodwill, or sociability rather than to impart information |
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Pragmatics |
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Prosody |
The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry. |
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Repair |
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Reported Speech |
A speaker's words reported in subordinate clauses governed by a reporting verb |
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Salutation |
A standard formula of words used in a letter to address the person being written to. |
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Semantic field |
A lexical set of semantically related items, for example verbs of perception. |
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Sibilance |
Repetition of the constant s to create a hissing sound when uttered. |
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Syndetic Listing |
Listing with the use of conjunctions |
