English glossary 0.0 / 5 ? English Language & Literatureglossary ASOCR Created by: macksCreated on: 28-04-16 09:34 What is context? The background information behind a text. 1 of 17 Rhetorical Language Phonology/ lexis and senmantics/ grammer/ pragmatics/ discourse 2 of 17 discourse An extended piece of written or spoken language 3 of 17 Phattic Language Expressoins that have a social function rather than expressing serious meainnig. 4 of 17 Genre a style or category of film, art or music. 5 of 17 Register A type of language that's appropiate for a praticular audience or suitation. 6 of 17 orthography The writting system of a language- how the langauge is represented through symbol and letters 7 of 17 Parody subverting the traditional expectation of a text features to produce humour or satire. 8 of 17 Lexical feilds A group of words that relate to the same topic. 9 of 17 Politness Stragety A way of phrasing something to avoid causing offence 10 of 17 Pragmatic The study of how language functions in social suitaitions. 11 of 17 cataphora A reference in a text to something that follows later phrases or sentences. 12 of 17 code switching when speakers use different variets of english depending on where they are and who they're with. 13 of 17 contraction A word that formed by shortening and combing two or more words. 14 of 17 Domiminance model Zimmerman and West's (1975) theory that gender differences in conversation reflect male dominance in society 15 of 17 Senmantics study of how words create meaning and interperted 16 of 17 Vernacular the commonly spoken language of a country or region. 17 of 17
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