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Elements of language
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| discourse | refers to any extended use of speech or writing. In linguistics, discourse is the name given to units of language longer than a single sentence |
| morphology | is concerned with the units, that carry meaning in a language. These may be word roots (as the English cran-, in cranberry) or individual words (in English, bird, ask, charm) |
| lexical items | are vocabulary or words of a language and the concepts they stand for example traffic, cars, light, pollution, police, stop, etc. |
| semantics | a branch of linguistics dealing with the study of meaning, including the ways meaning is structured in language and changes in meaning and form over time |
| connotation | refers to the positive or genitive feeling associated with the term e.g. House is the same as warmth |
| dennotation | it is the literal or exact meaning of a word e.g. Modern is the same as recent times |
| pragmatics | a branch of linguistics dealing with language in its situational context, including the knowledge and beliefs of the speaker and the relationship and interaction between speaker and listener |
| register | refers to the appropriate use of language in specific circumstances it is more appropriate to shout “excuse me, would you be so kind as to rescue me? I am drowning” or “help” by using formal language, you may use respect or politeness |
| phonology | Its aim is to discover the principles that govern the way sounds are organized in languages. The sound units used in that language and how they form patterns determine a language’s phonological structure. |
| context | When we communicate the _______ determines the language that is used to convey our thoughts and ideas to someone else |
| situations | By ___________we mean the events in which we include what is said, how it is said, to whom it is said, where it is said, and why it is said, these sequences of events related to a particular activity e.g. going out to a restaurant |
| syntax | refers to the relations among word elements in a sentence. For example, English word order is most commonly subject-verb-object |
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