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Linguistics Basics
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1. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Deictics
Performance
Language planning
Social connotation
2. When a public body decides which language will be taught in schools - what languages public employees must know - etc
Reflected connotation
Prescriptive
Language planning
Truth value
3. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Linguistics
Derivation
Language planning
Ambiguity
4. A transformation in which you add an auxiliary verb and switching to question format
Question
Compounding
Presupposition
Meaning
5. One who knows many languages
Individual/Restricted connotation
Polyglot
Coded connotations
Cohesion
6. Describes how language words today or at any given moment in time - not concerned with origin/history
Maxim of Manner
Flouting
Universal Grammar
Synchronic
7. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Phoneme
Negation
Metonymy
Shibboleth
8. Blending two existing words (motel - brunch)
Blends
Arbitrariness of the linguistic sign
Descriptive
Neologism
9. Words that depend on the context of a sentence for meaning (I - here - now)
Competence
Lexicon
Deictics
Sign
10. Putting two old words together to make a new word (railway)
Clipping
Coherence
Deixis
Compounding
11. 1. Quality or timbre 2. Volume 3. Length 4. Pitch or tone
Kernel sentence
Question
Four components of sounds
Coded connotations
12. Using a word from another language to create a new word (cafe - deja-vu)
Morpheme
Borrowing
Maxim of quality
Linguistics
13. An utterance produced by a speaker
Ambiguity
Backformation
Speech Act
Invention
14. Mental representation of a word
Descriptive
Locutionary Act
Categorizations of Speech Acts
Meaning
15. Deals with how sentences are formed
Language planning
Four processes by which we produce sound
Sign
Syntax
16. The overall meaning of a text
Syntax
Coherence
Denotation
Maxim of relevance
17. Deals with the sounds of a language
Maxim of relevance
Phonetics
Idioms
Clipping
18. The meaning derived from flouting
Implicature
Acronyms
Borrowing
Derivational morpheme
19. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings
Affective connotation
Blends
Universal Grammar
Maxim of Manner
20. The meaning of a sign
Signified
Prefix
Collocative connotation
Neologism
21. Using the initial letters of a set of words (NFL - NASA)
Maxim of quality
Acronyms
Pragmatics
Meaning
22. A transformation in which you change the voice of the sentence (Mary stoop up John --> John was stood up by Mary)
Passive
Flouting
Acronyms
Phonology
23. Deals with how sounds are put together to form words
Semantic features
Linguistics
Three types of articulations
Morphology
24. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)
Kernel sentence
Context
Compounding
Derivation
25. Multiword units - the meaning of which is not the sum of its parts
Acronyms
Intonation
Idioms
Derivation
26. Two words of different meanings that differ in only one phoneme (bit and pit - dog and dock)
Borrowing
Minimal pair
Ambiguity
Suffix
27. The meaning derived from flouting
Utterance
Implicature
Lexicon
Coherence
28. Historical - shows how language has changed through time - traces the etymology of words
Sign
Prescriptive
Three types of articulations
Diachronic
29. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Affective connotation
Blends
Metonymy
Clipping
30. Aspects of meaning having to do with the linguistic environment in which the expression occurs (cease and desist)
Collocative connotation
Semantic features
Polyglot
Locutionary Act
31. 1. Vowels (no obstruction) 2. Stops (complete obstruction) 3. Fricatives (Partial occlusion)
Free morphemes
Coherence
Three types of articulations
Language planning
32. A word that has died out
Invention
Affective connotation
Language planning
Archaism
33. Deals with the meaning of words - sentences - and texts
Invention
Morphology
Metonymy
Semantics
34. Aspects of meaning having to do with different levels of formality
Calque
Social connotation
Idioms
Particle hopping
35. Used by linguists to represent sounds in the languages of the world
Connotation
International Phonetic Alphabet
Denotation
Recursion
36. 1. Representations 2. Directives 3. Expressives 4. Commissives 5. Declaratives
Shibboleth
Categorizations of Speech Acts
International Phonetic Alphabet
Negation
37. Shortening a longer word (phone - auto) to create new words
Acronyms
Polyglot
Ambiguity
Clipping
38. Aspects of meaning having to do with feelings or attitudes of speakers (liberal - terrorist)
Kernel sentence
Prescriptive
Acronyms
Affective connotation
39. Figurative use of meaning (Bob is a pig)
Metonymy
Synchronic
Morpheme
Metaphor
40. A sentence in context
Utterance
Idioms
Implicature
Borrowing
41. The meaning of a sign
Bound morphemes
Syntax
Signified
Connotation
42. Breaking a word down by the way it looks and adding morphemes (workaholic - veggieburger)
Individual/Restricted connotation
Kernel sentence
Backformation
Homonyms
43. Shift in meaning (drink a glass of water)
Metonymy
Morpheme
Acronyms
Dative Movement
44. Change the meaning of a word - or part of speech (ex. child -> childhood)
Implicature
Derivational morpheme
Sign
Metaphor
45. One who knows many languages
Minimal pair
Polyglot
Syntax
Dative Movement
46. The property of the surface structure of the text to 'hold together'
Language planning
Bound morphemes
Cohesion
Syntax
47. Parts of a word are translated from other languages to create a new word (Fernsprecher)
Infix
Coded connotations
Calque
Signifier
48. The sequence of sounds that make up a word
Synchronic
Signifier
Bound morphemes
Transformations
49. The effect an utterance has on its audience (speech act)
Homonyms
Prescriptive
Maxim of Quantity
Perlocutionary Act
50. Meaning components
Acronyms
Signified
Implicature
Semantic features
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