Metalanguage

Metalanguage

1. Phonetics & Phonology

   • Phonological Patterning
     • Alliteration
     • Rhythym
     • Rhyme
     • Assonance & Consonance
     • Onamatopoeia
   • Prosodics
     • Pitch
     • Stress
     • Volume
     • Intonation
   • Vocal Effects
   • Assimilation
   • Vowel Reduction
   • Elison
   • Insertion

2. Lexicology & Morphology

   • Word Class
     • Context Words
       • Noun
         • Abstract noun
         • Concrete Noun
         • Proper noun
       • Verb
         • Modal Verb
       • Adjective
       • Adverb
     • Function Words
       • Preposition
       • Pronouns
         • Personal Pronoun
         • Possessive Pronoun
         • Relative Pronoun
         • Reflexive Pronoun
       • Conjunctions
       • Determiners
       • Auxillary verbs
   • Lexical Patterning
     • Compounding
     • Collocations
     • Neologism
     • Idiom
   • Acronym
   • Intialisms
   • Shortenings
   • Contractions
   • Blends

3. Syntax

   • Syntactic Patterning
     • Parrallelism
     • Listing
     • Antithesis
   • Sentences
     • Compound
     • Complex
     • Simple
     • Compound-Complex
     • Declarative
     • Exclamative
     • Imperative
     • Interrogative
   • Features
     • Adverbials
     • Ellipsis
     • Nominalisation
     • Coordination
     • Subordination
     • Kinds of phrases
       • Prepositional
       • Noun
       • Verb

4. Discourse

   • Cohesion
     • Anaphoric
     • Cataphoric
     • Information Flow
     • Deictics
     • Repitition
     • Collocations
     • Ellipses
     • Substitution
     • Conjunctions
     • Adverbials
   • Coherence
     • Cohesion
     • Inference
     • Logical Ordering
     • Formatting
     • Consistency
     • Conventions
   • Features of Spoken Discourse
     • Pauses
     • False Starts
     • Fillers
     • Repair
     • Openings
     • Closings
     • Adjacency Pairs
     • Overlapping
     • Interrogative tag
     • Discourse particle
     • Discourse marker
   • Convesational Startegies
     • Topic Management
     • Holding the floow
     • Turn Taking
     • Minimal Response

5. Semantics

   • Semantic Patterning
     • Irony
     • Metaphor
     • Oxymoron
     • Similie
     • Personification
     • Pun
     • Lexical Ambiguity
     • Animation
   • Features
     • Denotation
     • Connotation
     • Semantic Field
     • Euphamism
     • Dysphemism