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