Zusammenfassung der Ressource
A-Level English Terminology
- Register
- 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