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What is Acrolect
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Language variety closest to the standard english found most commonly in the carribean. Continued contact with standard english results in decreolisation where stand english and the lexifer language come together to form a new language variety. Basilect is most divergent and mesolect is intermediate divergent.
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What is Adjacency Pairs
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Involved with 'turn taking'. People have shared cultural knowledge of the type of
'script' used in particular kinds of speech events. Intuitive knowledge of English helps with knowing how to manage turn taking. ● Adjacency pairs are two sequential utterances which tend to occur together. Question and answer is the obvious pair. A considerable amount of conversation is based on adjacency pairs where particular kinds of utterances and response tend to occur together. Eg use of question-answer, greeting-greeting, invitationacceptance/ rejection, complaint-denial, request-acceptance/denial.. Linked Terms: Turn Taking |
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What is Basilect
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Decreolised variety of langaage that is most divergent from a lexifer language.
Basilect used in Guyana and is associated with family and local identity. In Trinidad and Tobago it is common for code switching between basilect/Acrolect/Mesolect Varieties |
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What is Borrowing
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When one language adopts or absorbs features or words from another language.
Example: Amateur or Entrepreneur from the French Language. |
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What is Centrifugual Forces
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The tendency of language varieties to diverge from a standard variety to a regional variation. Leads to a breakdown of a centralised hierachy.
Linked Term: Centripedal Forces |
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What is Centripedal Forces
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Tendency of a language varieties to converge towards a standard language asserting influence of a national language. Can lead to globalisation.
Example: People in multi-national companies who are required to communicate in the business language of English. Linked Terms: Centrifugal Forces |
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What is code-switching
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Switching from one language to another in conversation.
Example: speaking in english on the phone to a hindu relatative but code-switching to hindu to convey familarity or better describe a word that may not have a direct english comparision. Linked Terms: Styleshifting |
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What is Collocation
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The tendency for two or more words to occur within a short distance of each other.
Examples: Coffee cup, table, shop. Normally found in condordance lines from a concordancer that enables us to analyse frequently occuring words in a given text or texts. Linked Terms: Corpus, Corpus Linguisitics |
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What is Communicative Competence
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Set of skills that need to be acquired in order to know when to speak, variety of language to use, socially appropriate terms of phrase and turn-taking. As well as Linguistic Competence/Performance
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What are concordance Lines
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A concordance is the extraction of all instances of a particular word. The key word is shown in a centre column with its co-occuring words to the left and rignt.
Concordance lines are used by linguists to show patterns in language. Comparing different usages of the same word, analysing word frequencies, analysing key words, phrases, idioms and collocations. Linked Terms: Collocations |
