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ACCENT: STATUS AND SOLIDARITY

High status = low solidarity (cant trust)

ACCOMMODATION THEORY:

Accommodate speech - suit the target audience

CONTRACTION:

Marked with an apostrophe - adaptation towards audience

INTONATION:

Change in tone - persuasion, exaggeration - works with accomodation

RHETORICAL DEVICES:

Influence audience - persuade

INTERACTIONAL:

Type of conversation - casual and friendly

MODAL VERBS:

Alter the tone of the utterance - used for persuasion

PROSODIC FEATURES:

Mark out meanings - how something is said

REFERENTIAL:

REFERENTIAL:

Utterance type - provides information

REPETITION:

Emphasises - a rhetorical device

SOCIOLECT:

Variety of language used by a social group - indicates target audience

ACCOMMODATION THEORY:

Adjust our speech to who we talk to. Within comedy it portrays accent.

AMBIGUOUS LANGUAGE:

Open to having several meanings

SATIRICAL LANGUAGE:

One person makes jokes about another person.

STAND UP COMEDY:

Use of pronoun 'you'

INCONGRUITY THEORY:

Focuses on the element of suprise

HYPERBOLIC LANGUAGE:

Deliberate exaggeration

SUPERIORITY THEORY:

Glory of the downfall of others.

ALLUSION:

Reference to other texts

To avoid excluding, marginalising or insulting groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.

SLANG, GRICE'S MAXIM OF MANNER, REFERENTIAL UTTERANCES, PROSODIC FEATURES, TABOO LANGUAGE, DIALECT, STANDARD ENGLISH, R.P , AUDIENCE, REPAIR, TONE, HEDGES, FACE THEORY, ACCOMMODATION THEORY.

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