Key Words

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Cohesion

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Writers can ensure that a text 'sticks together'
by using a number of grammatical devices.

i.e. reference, ellipsis, etc.

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Colloquialism

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an establishment set of informal terms used in everyday language.

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Dialect

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The language variety of geographical regionor social background revealed by the variation in lexical and grammatical terms.

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Assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds for effect.

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Alliteration

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a sequence of words starting with the same letter.

e.g. 'lovely lemons', 'humourous hungry hippos'

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Preposition

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a class of words uswed to prepositional phrases.

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Prefix

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The extra small word you can add at the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

e.g. unhappy

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Transcript

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an naccurate written record of a conversation or monologue, including hesitations and pauses.

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Slang

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colloquial language that is inventive and particular to individuals or groups.

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Synonymy

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words with very similar semantic meaning.

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Active / Passive voice

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Transitive verbs (verbs thst take an object) can be used:

Active - The dog bit him.

Passive - He was bitten.

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Suffix

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The extra word you can add to the end of the word.

e.g. happyness

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Tag Question

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a geoup of words that turn a declarative into an interrogative.

e.g. 'it's cold' becomes 'it's cold, isn't it?'

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Prosodic features

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Paralinguistic vocal elements of spoken language used to provide emphasis or other effects.

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Subtext

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an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation.

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Pronoun

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I, You, He/She, them

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Premodification

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comes before the headword in a noun phrase.

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Sociolect

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a defined use of language as a result of membership of a social group.

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Accent

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The specific way words are pronounced according to geographical region.

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Grammar

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Is used to refer to the rules by which words are changed and ordered to form sentences.

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Phoneme

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The sound of the language.

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Semantics

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The framework that deals with meaning and how that is generated within texts.

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Lexis

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The word that carrys meaning, in contrast with those that are used to glue a sentence together.

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Pragmatics

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Giving information.

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Polysemy

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Some words have more than one meaning and this can cause ambiguity.

e.g. bank - money, bank - riverbank

dove - bird, dove - diving

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Adjacency pairs

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Two utterances by different speakers that have a natural and logical link, anfd complete an idea together.

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Morpheme

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The lowest unit of language that can convey a meaning.

- you cannot break a morpheme down into anything smaller that has its own meaning.

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Homophone

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Words which sound the same but are written differently with different meanings.

e.g. meet - to meet

meat - food

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Superlative

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Adjectives inflected with 'est' or combines with 'most' are in the superlative form.

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Imperative

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used to make commands.

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Idiolect

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An individual style of speaking or linguistic fingerprint.

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Parallelism

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The repetition of a pattern or structure in related words, phrases or clauses.

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that sounds like what it is descibing.

e.g. 'bang', 'crash' and 'crack'.

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Taboo

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A word that is 'forbidden'.

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Compound Sentence

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a sentence containing two or more main clauses connected by coordinating conjunctions or seperated by punctuation (semi-colon).

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Conjunction

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A class of words that are used to join together words, phrases or clauses.

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Connotation

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An associated, symbolic meaning relying on culturally shared conventions.

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Contraction

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A form of word shortening in which letters are removed from the middle of the word.

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Declarative

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Sentences that are used to make statements.

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Jargon

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Particuarly specialist terminology that may exclude others.

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Interrogative sentences

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are used to ask questions.

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Ellipsis

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missing words in a sentence purposefully.

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Ellision

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The missing out of sounds or parts of words in speech or writing.

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Euphemism

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A socially acceptable word or phrase used to avoid talking about something potentially distasteful.

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Fillers

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words used to fill up a pause to tell another person they are thinking of what to say next.

e.g. 'like', 'umm'

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Exclamative

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sentences that are used in exclamations.

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Genre

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The category or type of a text, such as: comedy, tragedy, horror.

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Discourse Structure

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The organisation of ideas.

e.g. discourse markers 'right' or 'okay'

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Denotation

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A strict dictionary meaning of a lexical term.

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Noun

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a naming word.

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Connotation

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a symbolic meaning.

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Adjective

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a describing word.

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Conjunction

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a class of words used to join together words, phrase or clauses.

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Modal Auxiliary Verbs

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These suggest the attitude of the speaker/writter.

should, could, would, might, may, can, will, must

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Tautology

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unnecessary repetition of a concept.

e.g. unmarried batchelor, two twins

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Verb

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a doing word.

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Taboo

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a word that is forbidden.

e.g. swear words

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Adverb

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word that modififies an adjective or verb.

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Standard English

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The correct way of speaking.