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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






2. The meaning derived from flouting






3. Actually saying a word - what you can do






4. A new word






5. A transformation in which you divide the phrasal verb (Mary stood up John --> Mary stoop John up)






6. The object which you can see - touch - hear - or smell






7. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)






8. The meaning of a sign






9. A syntactic phenomenon where a given constituent is in a constituent of the same kind






10. Affix before the root






11. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)






12. Two linked turns by different speakers which make sense only taken together (How are you? Fine. How about you?)






13. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words






14. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






15. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






16. Meaning components






17. The Principle of cooperation that states that one does not say what is false or what you lack evidence for






18. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)






19. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)






20. 1. Airstream 2. Phonation 3. Nasalization 4. Articulation






21. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






22. A word that has died out






23. Actually saying a word - what you can do






24. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)






25. Deals with how the sounds are organized






26. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






27. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






28. What can be deduced from the sentence's literal meaning






29. The fact that saying something commits you to it (vow - promise - swearing) (speech act)






30. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






31. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)






32. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality






33. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






34. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






35. The principle of cooperation that states to avoid obscurity and ambiguity - be brief and orderly






36. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






37. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts






38. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)






39. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






40. What we say in a literal sense (speech act)






41. Deals with how sentences are formed






42. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






43. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'






44. Invent new words from scratch (Xerox - Kleenex)






45. The rise and fall of sentences






46. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






47. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






48. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)






49. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives






50. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words