Thursday, 20 October 2016

A2 Language Terminology


  • A 'question and answer' or 'statement and response' is known as adjacency pairs 
  • The term for say 'yeah' and uh-huh' while someone is peaking is called back channeling 
  • When talk flows swiftly from one turn to the next it is known as Latched talk 
  • When you affect the data you are studying bu investigating it it is called the observers paradox
  • Your investigation needs to be ethical, comparable and reliable
  • AO3 awards marks for context
  • GRAPE stands for: Genre Reception Audience Purpose Expectations 
  • Your text needs to be analysed for meanings and representations 
  • High frequency lexis and syntax are both terms from the framework 'Lexis' 
  • Tannen's 3D theory is differences 
  • Less taboo language, hedges and more colour terms are all deficit features 
  • Cameron said "your genes don't determine you jeans"
  • Trudgill did their NORMS research in Norwich 
  • The island locals in Martha's Vineyard showed covert prestige 
  • There was more pronunciation of the post-vocalic R sound in more expensive stores in Labov's 'fourth floor' study 
  • Over generalisation is when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns 
  • There are 15 morphemes in this quote: "now you can't exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you need to get some help"
  • The stage after the two-word stage is called the telegraphic stage 
  • Halliday's function for getting your needs met was instrumental 
  • Deb Roy did the research on his son and discovered that caregivers simplify utterances around a word that is about to be learned 

Steven Pinker - Linguistics as a window to understand the brain