Formality
Informality
Discourse strategies
Other metalanguage
Preliminary Knowledge
100

Language that reflects the relationships between the participants of a communicative exchange

What is tenor?

100

Pictorial symbols or icons used to represent emotions 

What are emojis?

100

When multiple participants in a discourse speak at once where there may be a power imbalance

What is Uncooperative overlapping speech?

100

Language that attempts to reduce the imposition placed on the listener or reader, using indirectness or demonstrating respect for autonomy

What is negative politeness? 

100

The repetition of grammatical structures

What is parallelism?

200

Special words and phrases that are used by particular groups of people, especially in work environments that may not be understood by others

What is jargon?

200

An informal and conversational style of language used in everyday speech and writing.

What is colloquial language?

200

A set of phrases that come one after the other, such as question and answer or greeting and response

What are adjacency pairs?

200

When a speaker moves between two or more langauges in a single interaction to demonstrate in group membership and belonging. 

What is code switching?

200

Placing new or important information in the intial part of a sentence

What is front focus?

300

Language that purposely oscures or obfuscates or hides meaning

What is double speak?

300

Informal words or phrases that are commonly used only in particular parts of a country. 

What is regionally specific language?
300

Occurs when speakers correct or revise previous utterances. 

What are repair sequences?

300

The desire to be seen as competent and liked by others

What are positive face needs?

300

The repetition of vowel phonemes across phrases, clauses or sentences

What is assonance? 

400

Language that focuses on inclusivity and equality that avoids prejudice and stereotyping

What is non-discriminatory language?

400

Language that is considered socially or culturally inappropriate.

What is taboo language?

400

Linguistic units that speakers use to maintain the flow of conversation but have very little meaning on their own, such as like, so, anyway, you know. 

What are discourse particles?

400

Maintaining control of the conversation through strategies such as pause fillers

What is holding the floor?

400

When a speaker uses pronouns or possessive determiners to refer to something previously mentioned in a discourse? 

What is anaphoric referencing?

500

Language that persuades or motivates a reader or listener into action that supports the viewpoint of a speaker or writer

What is rhetoric?

500

The use of words and expressions that are intentionally harsh, offensive or derogatory.

What is dysphemism?

500

Pauses, voiced hestitations, false starts, repetition

What are non-fluency features?

500

Revisiting a previously discussed topic in conversation and resurfacing a subject previously mentioned. 

What is a topic loop?

500

Established rules and expectations for how texts are structured, organised or presented.

What are conventions?