Phonology
What are the six Phonological Patternings
Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Onomatopoeia, Rhythm, Rhyme
The avoidance of expressions and behaviours that are perceived to exclude, marginalise or affront groups of people who are disadvantaged or discriminated against is...
Political Correctness
Name four stylistic patternings
Phonological, Morphological, Syntax, Semantic
What is a prepositional phrase consist of?
a preposition and a noun phrase
The additional information assumed by hearers/readers in order to make a connection between what has been said/written and what is meant.
Describe inference
Alliteration is...
Provide an example
A phoneme that is repeated in the initial position of a series of lexemes.
Children chased the chickens through the yard cheerfully.
To affront someone's autonomy or ability to act without imposition is...
a Face Threatening Act (FTA) of their Negative face need
FLAMPOPIS
Clause elements are...
Subject
(Verb)
Object
Complement
Adverbial
Factors that contribute to a text’s coherence
FLICCC
Formatting
Logical ordering
Inference
Cohesion
Consistency and
Conventions
Prosodic features and their possible effects
Volume - level of loudness excitement, fear, warning
Pitch - How high or low the voice is
Intonation - the way pitch changes across an utterance
Tempo - slow or fast pace
Stress - to create emphasis or draw attention to a lexeme
This is distinguished by its lexical, phonological, grammatical and discourse features - language shared by those of a particular occupational group.
Jargon
Name six terms that are classed as Other metalanguage
register
• overt and covert norms
• Standard and non-Standard English
• political correctness
• jargon
• slang
• colloquial language/colloquialisms
• double-speak
• taboo language
• public language
• rhetoric
• positive and negative face needs
• situational context
• cultural context
• social purpose
• ethnolect; sociolect; idiolect.
Name the key verbs in a passive voice construction...
Primary auxiliary 'be' (was, were, being) and a past participle verb 'ed' 'en' or an irregular form
The intruder was stopped at the gate by the security guard.
Their bags were being checked as the entered the party.
Fields and subject specific language support this feature of coherence in a text.
What is consistency.
Identify the connected speech processes in the following:
knowan
dunno
wanna
Vogka
Insertion
Elision
Vowel Reduction
Assimilation
A kind of re-drafting feature found in spontaneous speech.
False start
Describe the syntactic pattern of parallelism
The use of similar words or grammatical constructions. Coordinated phrases or clauses
e.g. Signed, sealed and delivered
I came, I saw, I conquered
Two in the hand is worth one in the bush
Describe the elements of a compound-complex sentence and provide an example.
MC + MC + SC
Factors that contribute to a text’s cohesion
SCARED CASH FACCE
Subsistution, Cataphoric referencing, Anaphoric referencing, Repetition, Ellipsis, Deixis, Collocation, Antonomy, Synonymy, Hyponymy, Front focus, Adverbials, Conjunctions, Clefting, End focus.
An intonation pattern characteristic of many Australian speakers whereby utterances end with a rising rather than a falling intonation
High Rising Terminal (HRT)
or High Rising Tone
Language that conceals the true meaning of the word or utterance by making a negative seem positive.
Provide two examples
Double speak
'friendly fire'
‘crew transfer containers’
'pre-emptive strike'
1. Name any six morphological patternings.
blends, compounding, collocation, contractions, commonisation, affixation,
acronyms, initialisms, shortenings, neologisms,
What constitutes syntactic patterning and explain each one.
Listing
Antithesis
Parallelism
It was John who stole the bike Identify the feature and explain the effect.
What is Clefting
A focus device that splits off a part of a sentence in order to give prominence, Two clauses are formed from the one e.g. John stole the bike.