EVSL-Skriptum Vocabulary Flashcards (What is language?)

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms from the EVSL lecture notes (Pages 1–3).

Affix

affixes (word parts added to word stems)

Ansatz

approach (noun, an approach to a task or method)

Anwendung

application, use (of method, approach, theory)

Artikulation

articulation (how speech sounds are produced)

Artikulationsbewegung

articulation movements (mouth movements for speech)

Datenerhebung

data collection

Diskursforschung

discourse research (study of conversations/texts)

Disziplin

discipline (i.e., academic field)

Elizitation

elicitation (eliciting language data from speakers)

Finno-Ugristik

Finno-Ugric studies

Formenlehre

morphology (study of word forms)

Germanistik

German studies

Gesprächsforschung

conversation research (conversation as object of inquiry)

Gewährsperson

informant (person who provides language data)

Korpus

corpora (collections of texts for analysis)

Linguistik

linguistics (scientific study of language)

Morphem

morphemes (smallest meaningful units)

Morphologie

morphology (study of word structure)

Muttersprachler/in

native speaker

Philologie

philology (study of language in texts)

Phonem

phonemes (basic sound units)

Phonetik

phonetics (study of speech sounds)

Phonologie

phonology (study of sound systems)

Reflexivität

reflexivity (ability to talk about language itself)

Rhetorik

rhetoric (art of persuasive speaking)

Satzlehre

syntax (study of sentence structure)

Semantik

semantics (study of meaning)

Sprachfähigkeit

language faculty (human ability for language)

Sprachplanung

language planning

Sprachpflege

language maintenance

Sprachrichtigkeit

language correctness

Sprachwissenschaft

linguistics

Stilistik

stylistics (study of language style)

Stimulus

stimuli (something that causes responses)

Strukturebene

structural level

Syntax

syntax (sentence structure)

Terminus

term (technical word or term)

Textlinguistik

text linguistics

Übersetzung

translation

Übersetzungstheorie

translation theory

Zeichensystem

sign systems

Spracherwerb

language acquisition

Sprachunterricht

language teaching

erfassen

to grasp, comprehend

hervorheben

to emphasize, highlight

kreieren

to create

präskribieren

to prescribe (set rules)

voraussetzen

to presuppose, require

akustisch

acoustic

angeboren

innate

automatisiert

automated

bedeutungsunterscheidend

meaning-distinguishing

beschränkt

limited

deskriptiv

descriptive

elizitiert

elicited

empirisch

empirical

genetisch bedingt

genetically determined

händisch

manually (by hand)

kognitiv

cognitive

mehrschichtig

multi-layered

philologisch

philological

präskriptiv

prescriptive

sprachextern

external to language

universell

universal

verallgemeinbar

generalizable

vielschichtig

multi-layered