Features of Informal Language
A type of causal and relaxed informal language that is often location-specific
What is Colloquial Language?
A positive social environment in which all individuals feel comfortable, respected and at ease with each other.
What is Social Harmony?
The features within the acronym for analysing Coherence?
What is FLICC?
- Formatting
- Logical ordering
- Inference
- Consistency and conventions
- Cohesion
A set of phrases that come one after another.
What are Adjacency Pairs?
Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia, Rhythm and Rhyme are examples that come from this subsystem.
What s Phonological Patterning?
&, @, * and # allow us to communicate with more depth in a written text
What are Context-Specific Graphemes?
As this function is oriented towards the receiver of the message, it is about persuading, requesting or commanding.
What is a Conative function?
The features within the acronym for analysing Cohesion
What is SELLY?
- Substitution
- Ellipsis
- Linking
- Lexical choice
- References
These features are used to organise and maintain the flow of the conversation, but have very little meaning of their own.
What are Discourse Particles?
Figurative language, irony, metaphor, oxymoron are part of this subsystem.
What is Semantic Patterning?
The omission of words and phrases
What is Ellipsis?
A sense of closeness, familiarity and personal connection.
What is Intimacy?
Synonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy are examples of _______________ that impact the cohesion of the text.
What are lexical choices?
What are Non-Fluency Features?
Lexical choice, collocation, adverbials, and repetition are examples of this subsystem.
What is Discourse and Pragmatics?
The use of words or phrases that are intentionally harsh, offensive, or derogatory to describe people, groups, or a concept.
What is Dysphemism?
Reflecting an awareness of how the communication receiver is perceived.
What are Politeness Strategies?
The discourse factor used in these examples:
"Hit the breaks"
"Crossing the road"
What is collocation?
The feature of spoken discourse that is being used in this sequence.
A: So I was walking down the street when I saw a dog-
B: Uh-huh
A: -and it ran up to me out of nowhere!
B: No way!
A: Yeah. A super friendly dog that just wanted to play.
What is Backchanneling/Minimal Response?
Antithesis, listing and parallelism are part of this subsystem.
What is Syntactic Patterning?
Play a pivotal role in shaping the construction of the text and are intrinsically linked to the language used.
What are Situational and Cultural Context?
Manipulation of language to create variations of language features, giving rise to new words, phrases, pronunciations or meanings.
What is Linguistic Innovation?
The kind of reference used in this example:
"I’ll meet you there tomorrow."
What is Deictic Reference?
The strategy that is being used in this sequence:
B: "Wait, did you say John or James?"
A: "Oh, sorry, I meant James."
What are Repair Sequences?
"Unhappily disorganised miscommunication" is an example from this subsystem.
What is Morphological Patterning?