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General English Language Knowledge Questions!
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- 1What are the sentence types when analysing a text in terms of grammar?Imperatives, declaritives, directives, exclamitives, interrogatives
- 2What is orthography a reference to?The spelling of words. It can be used to highlight language change.
- 3List some general factors that may cause language change.Technology, geographical variation, social variation, individual variation.
- 4What is a hyperbole?An over exaggeration of something to make it sound better, worse or more drastic than it really was/is.
- 5Using an example, explain the difference between a hypernym and a hyponym?A hypernym is the general umbrealle term (e.g dog or tree) and a hyponym is everything this encooperates (e.g pug, retriever or beech, oak)
- 6In spoken language, give examples of non-fluency features.Hedging, fillers, false starts, repairs, pauses.
- 7When analysing in terms of phonology, what will you be making refernces too?Patterning, alliteration, sibilance, assonance, onomatopoeia, stress, intonation, pausing, non fluency features, fricitives, plosives.
- 8What is the meaning of archaic?Words that are no longer in use but still exist.
- 9When was the printing press invented and who was it invented by?William Caxton in 1476
- 10Who published the first dictionary and when?Dr Samuel Johnson in the 18th century.
- 11When did the Great Vowel Shift occur?1350-1700
- 12What is a prescriptivist attitude?That language is becoming more informal and thus decaying.
- 13Name and describe one of Aitchinson's theories.Damp spoon, cuckoos nest etc.
- 14In the modern day, approximatley how many people speak English either as a first or learnt language?1.5 billion
- 15What is the oldest recorded text of the English language?Beowulf
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