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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 sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






4. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






5. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






7. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)






8. Deals with the sounds of a language






9. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words






10. Actually saying a word - what you can do






11. The rise and fall of sentences






12. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






14. The meaning derived from flouting






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






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






17. Affix before the root






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






19. A new word






20. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






21. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)






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






23. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






25. Affix after the root






26. Affix before the root






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






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






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






30. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






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






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






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






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






37. Affix after the root






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






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






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






41. One who knows many languages






42. Mental representation of a word






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






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






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






46. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






48. The overall meaning of a text






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






50. A sentence in context







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