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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Meaning components






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






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






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






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






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






7. Affix before the root






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






9. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






11. Mental representation of a word






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






23. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






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






27. One who knows many languages






28. Affix after the root






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






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






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






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






33. A sentence in context






34. Deals with how sentences are formed






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






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






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






38. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






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






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






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






43. Affix before the root






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






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






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






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






48. Affix in the middle of a word






49. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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