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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






2. The meaning derived from flouting






3. The overall meaning of a text






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






5. Meanings of the same word that are unrelated (bank)






6. The overall meaning of a text






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






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






9. The meaning derived from flouting






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Mental representation of a word






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






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






22. Meaning components






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






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






25. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






26. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts






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






28. Affix before the root






29. Affixes - need to attach to another morpheme






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






31. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world






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






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






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






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






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






45. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






47. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






48. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






49. One who knows many languages






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