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A-Level English Terminology
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Mind Map on A-Level English Terminology, created by jessicama-yen on 19/10/2014.
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A-Level English Terminology
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audience
Who is it aimed at?
context
the place or situation a text might have been set in
purpose
referential
what the text is referring too
phatic
denoting speech to create a friendly atmosphere
transactional
expressive
effectively conveying someone's thought or feelings
mode
how communication is being made
idiolect
the way an individual speaks, personal to them
socialect
the way a person speaks due to people surrounding them (family)
dialect
the way someone speaks due to their region
contractions
shortening two words to one by adding an apostrophe
hedges
a protective barrier to prevent hurting others feelings e.g 'kind of'
displacement
where a sentence is not grammatically correct and so can be thought to have two meanings
elisions
to say a word and leave out a sound / syllable
sentence length
relaxed grammar
when a sentence starts with a conjunction and ends with a preposition
phonology
the study of sounds that make up words
phonemes
recognizably pronouncing a word e.g P I G
phonetics
the study of identifying utterances
phonetic terms
plosive
explosive sounds are created by using the breath
nasals
the use of air though the nose to create a certain sound e.g 'nnn'
fricatives
air forced through small passage in the mouth to create a hissing sound
affricatives
consonants that start as a plosive and end as a fricative
laterals
tongue forms obstruction to the front of the mouth allowing air to escape from the sides
non-verbal
aspects of speech and communication
verbal - worded
another aspect of phonology
they are modifiers to alter sounds and to achieve certain effects without necessarily altering pronunciation
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