Thursday, 20 October 2016

A Level language (A couple key points)


  • A question and answer or statement and response is called adjacency pairs.
  • The term for sating things such as 'yeah' or 'uh huh' while another is talking is called back channel agreement.
  • Latched talk is when talk flows swiftly from one tern to the next.
  • Observer paradox is when you affected the data you are studying by investigating it.
  • The investigation data should be ethical, comparable and reliable.
  • A03 marks are gained through context.
  • GRAPE- Genre, Reception, Audience, Purpose and Expectations
  • Text should be analysed for meanings and representations
  • Terms from the framework lexis are connotations, lexical field and metaphor, etc... 
  • Tannen's theory supported the difference theory 
  • Deficit features are things such as empty adjectives, intensifiers, hedges and tag questions
  • Deborah Cameron said "you genes don't determine your jeans".
  • Trudgill did his norms research in Norwich
  • The island locals on Martha's Vineyard showed covert prestige 
  • There was more pronunciation of the  post-vocalic R sound in the more expensive stores in Labov's 'fourth floor' study.
  • Overgeneralisation is when children apply standard grammatical rules to irregular verbs and nouns.
  • There are 15 morphemes in the following quote "now you can't exactly be like Jesus (0.5) instead you just get some help".
  • The telegraphic stage comes after the two-word stage.
  • The Halliday's function for getting your needs met is instrumental.
  • Deb Roy did research on his son and found that caregivers simplify their utterances around a word that is about to be learnt.  



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