The Frameworks

The Frameworks

1. Lexis (Words)

   • Taboo Language
   • Jargon and Specialist Vocabulary
   • Archaic
     • Old and mostly now unused words, but still exist.
   • Neologisms
     • New words
   • Technical and Non-Technical language
   • Etymology
     • Word origins
   • Lexical and Semantic fields
   • Colloquial Language
   • Semantics
     • Denotation
     • Connotation
     • Figurative language
       • Metaphor
       • Similie
       • Imagery
       • Collocations
     • Synonyms
       • Hypernyms
       • Hyponyms
       • Anatonyms
       • Polysemy
     • Hyperbole
     • Litotes
     • Euphemism and Dysphemism
     • Rhetoric
     • Irony
     • Oxymoron
     • Superlatives

2. Grammar

   • Word Classes
     • Adverbs
     • Nouns
       • Proper
         • Names (generally capitalised) E.G. London, Matthew
       • Concrete
         • Physical things E.G. chair, bed, cloth
       • Abstract
         • Non-physical things E.G. emotions (love, hate)
     • Pronoun
       • Third Person
         • He, she, they
       • Personal
         • You, your, you're, yourself
       • First Person
         • I, me, my
       • Second Person
         • Us
     • Adjectives
       • Comparitives
         • The second form: great, GREATER, greatest
       • Superlatives
         • The top form; great, greater, GREATEST 
       • Base
         • The smallest form of word: GREAT, greater, greatest
     • Conjunctions
     • Verbs
       • Modal
       • Imperative Verbs
       • Main Verbs
       • Finite and Non Finite
         • Non finite: Words ending in -ing Finite: The opposite
       • Auxilary
       • Dynamic and Stative
   • Sentence Types
     • Minor
       • No clause, usually an exclamation
     • Simple
       • One clause
     • Compound
       • Two main clauses joined by a conjunction (e.g. and, but)
     • Complex
       • One main clause and a subordinate clause.
     • Exclamitives
       • Exclamations
     • Imperatives
       • Orders or commands
     • Interrogatives
       • Questions
     • Declaritives
       • Statements or facts
     • Directives
       • Imperatives
         • Orders or commands
       • Mitigated

3. Pragmatics

   • Register
     • The tone of the text
   • Context
     • Outside factors that may have an influence on the text
   • Underlying Meaning
     • What is the message of the text, what is it trying to say?
     • Implied Meaning
       • What is the author trying to say?
     • Reading Between the Lines
       • Words not said or written, but the motive of the text
   • Viewpoint
     • Genre
     • Audience
     • Purpose
   • Semantics
   • Euphemism
     • Making words have a positive emphasis so that they do not sound harsh. E.G. passed away instead of died
     • Metaphor
     • Allegory

4. Discourse

   • Coherence
     • The sound of the text, does it flow?
     • Register
       • Tone
   • Conventions
     • E.G. Letter, agenda, menu
   • Tripartite
     • Groups of three repetitions
   • Cohesion
   • Discourse Markers
     • Structural points that mark any text
     • Temporal
       • Reference to Time
     • Spatial
       • Reference to Space
   • Referencing
     • Anaphoric
     • Cataphoric
     • Exaphoric
     • Endophoric
   • Repitition

5. Phonology

   • Fricitives
   • Plosives
   • Patterning
   • Alliteration
   • Sibilance
   • Assonance
   • Onomatopoeia
   • Stress, Intonation, pausing, non fluency features

6. Graphology

   • Size
   • Colour
   • Photograph/ Drawing
   • Positioning