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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






9. A sentence in context






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






11. Affix after the root






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






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






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






15. Adding derivational morphemes to create new words (to fax)






16. A new word






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






18. Meaning components






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






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






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






22. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






23. Actually saying a word - what you can do






24. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






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






28. Affix in the middle of a word






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






30. Deals with how sentences are formed






31. A word that has died out






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






33. A sentence in context






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






35. Affix after the root






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






37. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






38. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






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






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






41. Affix before the root






42. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






43. The principle of cooperation that requires relevance






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






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






46. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






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






48. Having more than one meaning (polysemy)






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






50. Actually saying a word - what you can do