Metalanguage RevisionEnglish language year 12 2011

List as many prosodics as you can and define them.

List as many prosodics as you can and define them.Intonation, pitch, rhythm, loudness, tempo, stress, pausing, voice quality.

List as many paralinguistic features as you can.

List as many paralinguistic features as you can.Facial expression, body gesture, eye gaze.

Identify each of these featuresIt was really g-, awesome.It was really really awesome.That is really awesome.It was … really awesome.It was, that was really awesome.

Identify each of these featuresIt was really g-, awesome - RepairIt was really really awesome - RepetitionThat is really awesome - EllipsisIt was … really awesome - PauseIt was, that was really awesome - False start

Give examples for each of these.Adjacency pairOverlapInterrogative tagCollocation

List and give examples of semantic stylistic features

List and give examples of semantic stylistic featuresIrony, metaphor, oxymoron, simile, personification, pun, idiom

What category includes the following?Diphthong, accent, connected speech processes.

What category includes the following?Diphthong, accent, connected speech processes.

Phonetics!

What words would you associate with morphology?

What words would you associate with morphology?Affix, suffix, prefix, suffixation, root, morpheme, derivation and inflection (past tense and plural)

What words would you associate with lexicon?

What words would you associate with lexicon?Parts of speech, noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, auxiliary, conjunction (subordinating, coordinating), determiner, function word, content word

Keep going, what about syntax?

What about syntax?Phrase, clause, sentence, subject, object, complement, adverbial, sentence type (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamative), sentence structure (simple, complex, compound), passive

Now semantics and discourse, I’ll give them to you, but you need to define them.EllipsisNominalisationCoordinationSubordinationAnaphoricCataphoricDeixisInformation Flow

End focusEnd weightFront focusFront weightSemantic fieldConnotationDenotationSense relations (synonymy, antonymy)

Keep going, define, give examples or find examples of anything you need to practice.This is all going to be usable in the exam, so make sure you are familiar with everything here.Good luck.