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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Actually saying a word - what you can do






2. How sentences and texts are used in the world(context)






3. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






4. All aspects of meaning that go beyond the sense of the word - or the literal meaning






5. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






6. The ability to produce language - what you know






7. A new word






8. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






9. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






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






11. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)






12. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






13. Affix in the middle of a word






14. Affix in the middle of a word






15. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






16. Core meaning - corresponds to a sign's sense or intension - the literal meaning of a word






17. The overall meaning of a text






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






19. Affix before the root






20. Mental representation of a word






21. The set of sentences that must be true for the sentence to be true






22. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






23. Affix after the root






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






25. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)






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






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






28. A black and white - right and wrong approach to language - traditional - seeks to impose outside arbitrary rules






29. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






30. Moving parts of a sentence into different positions for emphatic purposes






31. The principle of cooperation that requires you be as informative as required but not more than that






32. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words






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






34. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history






35. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






36. Deals with how sentences are formed






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






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






39. Meaning components






40. A transformation in which you shift the object of a sentence (Mary gave a book to John --> Mary gave John a book)






41. Deals with the sounds of a language






42. Aspects of meaning concerning other meanings of an expression that may be activated when irrelevant (cock)






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






44. The meaning of a sign






45. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)






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






47. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






49. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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







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