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Linguistics Basics

Subject : humanities
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1. Associations that an individual/small group may develop through everyday experiences (inside joke)






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






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






4. A sentence in context






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






6. Affix in the middle of a word






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






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






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






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






11. A sentence in which no transformation has been applied






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






13. The situation in which a sentence is uttered






14. Actually saying a word - what you can do






15. Affix after the root






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






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






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






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






20. The word that connects the meaning and the referent






21. Deals with how sentences are formed






22. Morphemes that can appear alone (cat)






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






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






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






26. Meaning components






27. Provides information about the group to which individuals belong






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






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






30. Deals with the sounds of a language






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






32. One who knows many languages






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. The branch of pragmatics that studies deictic words






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






42. The connection between shape and meaning is arbitrary






43. The science that studies language






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






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






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






47. Actually saying a word - what you can do






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






49. Combined phonemes - the smallest unit of language with a distinct meaning






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






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