English Language Key Terms

Abbreviation

Accommodation Theory

Acronym

Active Voice

Addresser/Addressee

Adjacency Pair

Adverbial

Agenda-Setting

Antonym

Audience

Backchannel Behaviour

Blend

Borrowing

Clause

Collocation

Colloquial

Compounding

Connotation

Consonant

Context

Convergence

Covert Prestige

Declarative

Deixis

Denotation

Derivation (affixing)

Descriptive Approach

Discourse

Discourse Marker

Divergence

Elision

Ellipsis

Etymology

Face

Field

Figurtative

Filler

First Person Pronoun

Footing

Formality

Framing Move

Function

Glottal Stop

Grammar

Grapheme

Graphology

Grice's Maxims

Hedge

Idiolect

Imperative

Implicature

Informality

Intensifier

Interrogative

Interruption

Intonation

Jargon

Joo's 5 Levels of Formality

Key Constituent

Lexeme

Lexis

Literal Meaning

Marker of Sympathetic Circularity

Metaphor

Mitigated Imperative

MLU (Mean Length of Utterance)

Modal Auxiliary Verb

Modal Expression

Mode

Monosyllabic

Morpheme

Morphology

Neologism

Nomilanisation

Onomatopoeia

Overlapping Speech

Passive Voice

Past Tense

Phatic

Phoneme

Phonology

Phrase

Pitch

Post-Modification

Pragmatics

Prefix

Pre-Modification

Prescriptive Approach

Present Tense

Prestige

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Register

Salutation

Schwa

Second Person Pronoun

Semantic Field

Semantics

Slang

Standard English

Stigmatised

Stress

Structure

Sub-text

Subject-Specific Lexis

Suffix

Synonym

Taboo Language

Tag Question

Tenor

Terms of Address

Text

Text Structure

Third Person Pronoun

Transactional Language

Turntaking

Utterance

Vowel

Word Class

Ambiguous