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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Purposefully violating one of the principles/maxims of cooperation






2. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc






3. A transformation in which you add a negation word to the sentence






4. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






6. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






7. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






9. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






10. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






11. Deals with how the sounds are organized






12. Meaning components






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






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






15. A single sound. K - d - t - e






16. Describing the facts - Tries to determine why people use language the way they do - seeks to find the rules that govern spoken language






17. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






19. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






20. Affix after the root






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






22. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






23. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






24. The ability to produce language - what you know






25. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






26. A sentence in context






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






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






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






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






31. Deals with how sentences are formed






32. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






33. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






34. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone






35. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






37. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)






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






39. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






40. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






42. Deals with how the sounds are organized






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






44. Deals with the sounds of a language






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






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






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






48. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)






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






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