Component 02, sec: A Streetcar Named Desire_ Terminology

Colloquialism

A word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation, tends to be used for casual communication.

Interlocutor

A person taking part in a conversation.

Flouting Grice’s maxim of quantity

The interlocutor’s contribution is either more informative than is required or not informative enough.

Flouting Grice’s maxim of quality

The interlocutor is not truthful, and gives information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.

Flouting Grice’s maxim of relevance

The interlocutor’s interaction is not relevant in the conversation.

Flouting Grice’s maxim of manner

The interlocutor is not clear in their communication. Their dialogue is ambitious or shows a lack of order or is overly wordy.

Literary allusion

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

High frequency lexis

Words that often appear in everyday speech.

Low frequency lexis

Words that appear more rarely.

Non-standard grammar

Any dialect of English other than Standard English e.g. anyway or anyways.

Complex, multi-clausal sentence structures

Sentences made up of a main clause and then one or more dependent clauses.

Minor sentences

Any sentence that does not have at least one independent clause.

Prolonged speaking turns

When one speaker takes a long time speaking in one go during a conversation.

Holding the floor

The interlocutor speaks for longer durations during dialogue.

Face threatening acts

Expressions negatively evaluating the hearer or showing the hearer that they do not care about offending them

Interrogative

A question

Imperative

A direct command

Declarative

A statement

Exclamatory phrase

A phrase expression strong emotion. It will be ended with an exclamation mark.

Conversational implicature

A nonconventional assumption that the listener can understand what is implied by context despite not being exactly told.

Suprasegmental features

A speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture.

Paralinguistic features

Use of body language and facial expressions.

Exhortation

An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something.

Hyperbole

Use of exaggeration.

Antithesis

A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Parenthesis

A word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it, in writing usually marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas.

Ecphonesis

An emotional, exclamatory phrase (a sudden outcry) used in poetry, drama, or song.

Pragmatographia

The vivid description of an action or an event such as battle, marriage, feast or burial. This figure is frequently used in drama for exposition or to report what has happened offstage.

Dramatic Irony

Something seen or understood by the audience and hidden from the characters.

Deviation

To depart or deviate from the usual form…

Phonology

The sound of our speech- accent and pronunciation, use of plosives, fricatives, sibilants

Register

Register or degree of formality used in speech- high, common or low.

Motifs

A dominant or recurring idea.

Parallelism

The patterning of pairs of sounds, words or structures to create a sense of balance.

Euphemism

A word that replaces a term seen by society as taboo or unpleasant.

Deictic/Deixis

Words that rely on the context to be understood e.g. pass me that, there.

Active Voice

The subject of the sentence is doing the action, the dog eats the bone/I didn’t do my homework.

Passive Voice

The subject and order change places- the bone was eaten by the dog/the homework wasn’t completed

Archaisms

A word or phrase that is old fashioned and no longer in use.

Leitmotif

A short, constantly recurring musical phrase associated with a particular person, place, or idea.

Diegetic sound

Any sound that emanates from the story (or narrative) world of a film, which is referred to in film studies as diegesis. Diegetic sound can include everything from the voices of characters to the sounds of objects or music coming from a radio or an instrument–anything that exists in the story world.

Non-diegetic sound

Non-diegetic sound, also known as "commentary sound," is audio whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied in the action. This can include a narrator's commentary, added sound effects or mood music in the background.