Features of Informal Language
A type of causal and relaxed informal language that is often location-specfiic
What is Colloquial Language?
What is social harmony?
Sets of phrases that come one after the other.
What are Adjacency pairs?
Technical or specialised terms used with a specific field.
What is Jargon?
The closeness of the relationship between participants.
What is Social Distance?
Alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm and rhyme are parts of this subsystem.
What is Phonological Patterns?
As this function is oriented towards the receiver of the message, it is about persuading, requesting or commanding.
What is Conative Function?
linguistic units that speakers use to organise and maintain the flow of conversation.
What are Discourse Markers?
Purposely ambiguous texts, with overly euphemistic or misleading language.
What is Double Speak?
What is Manipulating?
The omission of words or phrases.
What is an Ellipsis?
A sense of closeness, familiarity and personal connection.
What is intimacy?
Choosing to switch between langauges.
What is Code Switching?
Antithesis, listing and parallelism are part of this subsystem.
What is Syntactic Patterning?
Actions and beliefs that create discomfort for a particular society.
What are Social Taboos?
&, @, * and # allow us to communicate with more dewpth in a written text.
What are context-specific grahemes?
reflecting an awareness of how the communication receiver is perceived.
What is Politeness Statergies?
the way we use grammatical and lexical techniques to link words together to create meaning.
What is Cohesion?
Figurative language, irony, metaphor, oxymoron are part of this subsystem.
What is Semantic Patterning?
Words of phrases that are used in place of particularly blunt or taboo word or phrases.
What are Euphemisms?
What is Situation Context 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?
vocabulary that is clear, concise and relevant to the topic at hand
What is Lexical Choice?
"Australia is a melting pot of cultures" is an example from this subsystem.
What is Semantic patterning?
"I reject completely each of the findings which are critical of my involvement in authorising the scheme are are adverse to me." is an example of formal language used for this purpose.
What is Obfuscating?