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What is grammar?
It is the set of rules that tells how words can be put into a sequence and a form that allows their meaning to become unambiguous in a sentence.
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What is genre?
Modes of speaking or writing that people learn to mimic, weave together, and manipulate. In this sense genres are socially specified: recognized and defined (often informally) by a particular culture or community. It is a category used to classify discourse usually by form, technique, or content.
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What is style?
Variation in a person´s speech or writing. It is the result of the choices a writer (or speaker) makes regarding aspects of language, language features and structure with regard to creating a text or discourse that will suit a particular genre, context, audience and purpose.
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What is lexis?
The vocabulary of a language.
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An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word.
Concordance
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True or false. A speech act is a specific reason to use language to meet a specific need or desire. Examples: request, complain, invite, etc.
False. It´s a language function.
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True or false. A speech act is an utterance that serves a function in communication. Examples: Greeting: "Hi, Eric. How are things going?"
True
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What is a "code" in linguistics?
A language. A system of communication.
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A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject.
Rhetoric
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What is discourse?
In a broad sense, it is the use of spoken or written language in a social context. Language in use. Socially situated text and talk.
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What kind of analysis would be carried out if purpose and social setting is analyzed for the following: Bring me that book. Please bring me that book. Will you bring me that book? Could you bring me that book? Would you mind bringing me that book?
Register analysis.
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It consists of a databank of natural texts, compiled from writing and/or a transcription of recorded speech.
Corpus
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It is the starting point for devising syllabuses, courses, materials and the kind of teaching and learning that takes place.
Needs analysis
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It is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
Register
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An _________ is a linguistic term that refers to a spoken text of any kind.
An utterance is a linguistic term that refers to a spoken text of any kind.
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Analysis of actual usage of language to discover patterns of authentic language use.
Corpus analysis
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What is cohesion?
The links that hold a text together and give it meaning.
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It studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation.
Pragmatics
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Within linguistics, the word '______' means any continuous and coherent sequence of writing or speech.
Within linguistics, the word 'text' means any continuous and coherent sequence of writing or speech.
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It investigates 1) language, spoken or written, beyond the limits of a sentence. 2)the relationship between language and society, 3) the interaction properties of daily communication. It attempts to answer the question: why members of specific discourse communities use the language the way they do.
Discourse anlysis.
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What is semantics?
It is the study of word and phrase meaning.
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What is rhetorical analysis?
An examination of how authors attempt to persuade their audiences by looking at the various components that make up the art of persuasion.
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It refers to the way words are put together in a group to create meaning as phrases, clauses or as a sentence.
Syntax
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What is genre analysis?
It is the study of situated linguistic behavior in institutionalized academic or professional settings. This type of analysis provides a dynamic explanation of the way expert users of language manipulate generic conventions to achieve a variety of complex goals.
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What is backwash?
It is the influence that a test has on the way students are taught (e.g. the teaching mirrors the test because teachers want their students to pass).