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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)






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






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






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






5. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






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






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






8. The meaning derived from flouting






9. The sequence of sounds that make up a word






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






11. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






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






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






16. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






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






18. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format






19. Affix in the middle of a word






20. The rise and fall of sentences






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






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






23. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






26. The science that studies language






27. Affix after the root






28. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






29. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






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






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






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






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






35. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






36. Occurs when words have been disambigued and a sentence has a clear meaning






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






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






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






40. A sentence in context






41. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Deals with how sentences are formed






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







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