Language Features ALEVEL English combined

Created by: Lily Jeyes
Created on: 14-06-21 10:30

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LANGUAGE FEATURES
- Pragmatics
  - How does context influence a writers lexical choices?
  - Use of diexis
  - Purpose of the language user- Narrator might might want you to do something specific, not just for info or entertainment
  - What is imlied by the linguistic fetures?
- Discourse
  - Narrative
  - How does the text fit together, including with other texts
  - Fluency features (contractions, pronouns, deixis, spoken markers 'so' 'right' 'okay'
  - Non-fluency features (fillers, pauses, repetition, false starts)
- Graphology
  - Paragraphs
  - Layout, shape, space
  - Images
  - Typography
- Lexis and Semantics
  - Modifiers- decriptive, evaluative, factual and technical
  - Pre/Post modification
  - Nouns (proper, abstract, concrete) Verbs (material, relational, mental, verbal, dynamic) Pronouns (personal, demonstrative, indefinite)
  - Euphamisms/Dysphemisms
  - Semantic effects (Metaphors, Similies, symbols, puns, ambiguity)
- Phonetics/ Phonology/ Prosodics
  - Phonological manipulation (Obvious phonetic effects such as alliteration, rhythm, multi-modality- these create an informal register because they correlate with children's writing
  - Subtle phonetic effects (assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, non-lexical onomatopoeia)
  - Phonemes (types of sounds- fricative, affricates)
  - Emphasis through word stress (indicated through graphology in written texts)
- Grammar
  - Sentence functions (declaritive, interrogative, imperative)
  - Noun phrases/ Verb phrases (active/passive)
  - Modal auxiliary verbs (can, could, will, would, may, might etc)
  - Sentence clauses (simple, compound, complex, minor, elliptical)

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Language Features ALEVEL English combined

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