Lexis and Grammar
words that show feelings (e.g happiness) or concepts (e.g time)
What is an abstract noun?
an individual unit of sound
What is a phoneme?
a word/sound used when thinking or expressing uncertainty
What is a filler?
the model that views women's language as weaker than men's
What is the deficit model?
specialised occupational terms
What is jargon?
a sentence that states something
What is a declarative?
prior knowledge on a given subject
What is schema?
What is text-image cohesion?
where Trudgill conducted his /g/ dropping study
What is Norwich?
looked at social stratification of /r/ in New York
Who is William Labov?
words that increase the impact of something (e.g so, really, very)
What is an intensifier?
sounds such as /f/, /v/, /s/, /th/
What are fricatives?
What is backchannelling?
the theorist who criticised Zimmerman and West's study on interruptions
Who is Geoffrey Beattie?
John Swales' main concept for occupational groups
What is a discourse community?
the subject is acted upon by the verb
What is passive voice?
the need to not be imposed upon
What is negative face?
fonts that use small lines at the ends of letters
What is a serif font?
conducted a study showing the changing attitudes of identity in Middlesborough
Who is Carmen Llamas?
Malcolm Petyt found that lower-class people used this feature more
What is 'h-dropping'?
expressing probability or possibility in something
What is epistemic modality?
when something is in relation to the speaker at that given moment
two speakers talking back and forth to each other
What is an adjacency pair?
What is gender performativity?
Deborah Cameron found the language used in this job was very formulaic
What are call centres?