English Language

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Decks in this class (25)

Pragmatics
Genre 1,
Register 2,
Mode 3
24  cards
Phonology
Phonology 1,
Accent 2,
Dialect 3
23  cards
Lexis and Semantics
What does lexis mean 1,
Lexeme 2,
Lexical field 3
33  cards
Graphology
What does graphology mean 1,
The writing system 2,
Font styles 3
10  cards
Discourse
Discourse 1,
Standard english 2,
Agenda setting 3
26  cards
Grammar
What is grammar 1,
What is a attitude to grammar 2,
What are the open word classes 3
61  cards
Politeness Theory
Who created the politeness maxims 1,
What are the maxims for 2,
Maxim of agreement 3
18  cards
Gender and Language
Stereotypes 1,
Gendered adjectives 2,
A theory for gendered adjectives 3
32  cards
Power and Language
What is power 1,
Types of power 2,
What are the two power concepts t...
19  cards
Detailed Power Revision Guide
Persuasive techniques in language 1,
Parallelism 2,
Synonymous parallelism 3
42  cards
Technology and Language
When was the printing press intro...,
Explain more about the printing p...,
Look at article notes for more de...
31  cards
Language Change Terms Overview
Broadening 1,
Narrowing 2,
Amelioration 3
16  cards
Language Change Overview
What is the pre english english 5...,
Early old english 450 850 2,
Later old english 850 1100 3
7  cards
Prescriptivist vs Descriptivists
Prescriptivists 1,
Descriptivists 2,
Give a linguist that speaks on th...
3  cards
Mechanisms for Language Change
Technology 1,
Arts and fashion 2,
External influences 3
6  cards
Phonological Change
When was the great vowel shift 1,
What was the gvs 2,
Give some examples of gvs shown i...
8  cards
Lexical Change
Where do words go 1,
Gives reasons for why words appear 2,
What is etymology 3
12  cards
Orthographical Change
Did spellings become standardised...,
The 1600 hierarchy 2,
1500 3
14  cards
Grammatical Change
When were the prescriptivist rule...,
What did the p rules eventually c...,
When were rules drawn up and by w...
23  cards
Language Change Theorists
Diachronic change 1,
Synchronic change 2,
Suzanne romain 1998 internal chan...
13  cards
CLA Introduction
What could affect a childs langua...,
What stage is 0 2 months 2,
What happens in the vegetative st...
21  cards
Grammatical Development
Look at the rate of accusation fl...,
In the first 12 months what do ba...,
What did katherine nelson 1973 sa...
13  cards
Development of Meaning
What is productive vocabulary 1,
What is receptive vocabulary 2,
Look at the productive rate of ac...
13  cards
Language Change Theorists.
Instrumental 1,
Regulatory 2,
Interactional 3
7  cards
Language and the Media
Bias 1,
Representation 2,
Sensationalise 3
20  cards

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