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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The meaning derived from flouting






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. One who knows many languages






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






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






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






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






13. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






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






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






17. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






18. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






20. Actually saying a word - what you can do






21. The meaning derived from flouting






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






23. The vocabulary of a speaker/language






24. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






25. An utterance produced by a speaker






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






27. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Aspects of meaning evoked by cultural or literary codes






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






36. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






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






40. A word that has died out






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






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






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






44. A sentence in context






45. Required by syntax - mark grammatical categories (plurality - tense - comparative - etc) suffixes only






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






47. Noam Chomsky's idea that the principles that govern grammar are genetically programmed in human beings






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






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






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







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