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34 Cards in this Set
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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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Diachronic Change
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Refers to the study of historical change occurring over a span of time.
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Drift
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A process of linguistic change over a period of time.
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Lexicon
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The vocabulary of language
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Mixed-mode
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Features of printed text combined with features expected in conversation.
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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. Received Pronunciation and Standard English are accepted as the most prestigious English accent and dialect.
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Political Correctness
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Words or phrases used to replace those that are deemed offensive.
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Standardisation
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Making all variations of language conform to the standard language.
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Synchronic Change
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Refers to an approach that studies language at the theoretical point in time without considering the historical context.
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Typography
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The study of the graphic features of the printed page.
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Dummy Auxiliary
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The verb 'do' which is used to form questions and negatives or to add emphasis on a statement.
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Emoticons
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The online means of showing facial expressions and gestures.
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Influential Power
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Power used to influence or persuade others.
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Instrumental Power
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Power used to maintain and enforce authority.
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Assimilation
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The influence exercised by one sound upon the articulation of another so that the sounds become more alike.
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Creole
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A language variety created by contact between one or more language forms and becoming established over several generations of users.
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Cockney
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A distinctive accent spoken in London.
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Cockney
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A distinctive accent spoken in London.
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Dialect
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The lexical, semantic and grammatical patterns of language use distinctive to a particular group of people.
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Divergence
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When a person's speech patterns become more individualised and less like those of the other person in a conversation.
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Eye dialect
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A way of spelling words that suggests a regional or social way of talking.
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Social variables
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The ways in which the context of data differs by social factors like age, gender, ethnicity and social class.
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Prescriptivism
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An attitude to language use that makes judgements about what is right and wrong and holds language up to an ideal standard that should be maintained.
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London Jamaican
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A distinctive variety of language blending Cockney, Jamaican Creole and Standard English forms.
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Informalisation
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The way in which language is becoming increasingly informal in all areas of society.
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Omission
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The leaving out of a phoneme in a group of phonemes clustered together.
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Received Pronunciation
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The prestige form of English pronunciation, sometimes considered as the 'accent' of Standard English
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Scouse
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A distinctive accent spoken in Merseyside.
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Americanisms
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Examples of language use distinct to American English speakers.
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Descrptivism
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An attitude to language use that seeks to describe it without making value judgements.
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Fascicle
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One of the divisions of a book published in parts.
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Fronting
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Moving the place in which a vowel is pronounced towards the front of the mouth.
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Subculture
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A cultural pursuit engaged in that happens outside of the mainstream, accepted values of society.
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