Informal language 1
This type of language is used primarily in casual conversation, often involving slang and colloquialisms.
What is informal language?
The process that changes 'Mister' to 'Mr'.
What is abbreviation?
The specific type of slang that uses 'idk' or 'brb'.
What is internet slang?
Informal expressions often used to show surprise, excitement, or other strong emotions, such as "Wow!" or "Oops!"
What are interjection?
Similar to initialisms but pronounced as a word, e.g. ANZAC.
What is an acronym?
Leaving out a sound segment , e.g. 'probly' instead of 'probably'.
What is elision?
A form of abbreviation where a longer word is reduced to a shorter form, e.g. 'info' from 'information'.
What is shortening?
A new word is created by removing what appears to be an affix from an existing word - mistakenly assuming that the original word was derived from the shortened form. E.g. 'edit' from 'editor'.
What is backformation?
When informal language includes unfinished or incomplete sentences, often relying on context for understanding
What is ellipsis?
Informal speech often features relaxed, conversational endings to sentences, such as "you know" or "right?"
What is a sentence tag?
A shortened form of a word or group of words, created by omitting one or more letters and replacing them with an apostrophe.
What is contraction?
Adding derivational prefixes or suffixes which changes the meaning of a word and sometimes the word class.
What is affixation?
What is conversion?
Informal phrases that soften a statement, often used to appear less direct, like "kind of" or "sort of."
What is hedging?
A newly coined word, term or expressions that has been recently created or adopted into a language, often describing new concepts, technologies or cultural phenomena.
What is a neologism?
An informal word or phrase that is often specific to a particular group or culture.
What is slang?
Two or more words are combined to create a new word, e.g. 'download'.
What is compounding?
The subsystem associated with assimilation
Phonetics and phonology
Informal language often includes friendly, conversational fillers, such as "like" or "you know."
What are discourse markers?
Words taken from one language and incorporated into another without translation, e.g. macho (Spanish), tsunami (Japanese)
What are borrowings or loanwords?
These phrases are common in informal language and often have meanings that cannot be deduced from the individual words.
What are idioms or idiomatic phrases?
Parts of two or more words are combined to form a new word, e.g. 'guesstimate'.
What is blending.
Informal expressions often involving simple, repetitive structures, like "easy-peasy."
What is reduplication?
Informal language often includes short, simple words or phrases that convey politeness, such as "please" or "thanks."
What are politeness markers?
A proper noun (usually brand) becomes a generic term for a product or service, e.g. 'kleenex' or 'google'.
What is a commonisation?