AQA English Language - Representations and Texts in Time

Morphology

The way words are formed from the smallest units of meaning, morphemes

Pragmatics

Study of language use and ways in which meanings are not always readily understood, implied meaning

Analysing Unseen Texts

What type of genre is it? (Discourse)

What is the purpose? (Discourse)

Does the form of text resemble another genre? (Discourse)

Is the situation of the reader or listener relevant? (Discourse)

What are the implied meanings? (Pragmatics)

What can be noticed about sentence structure? (Grammar)

What is significant about lexical choices? (Lexis/Semantics)

What can be said about the visual effects? (Graphology)

Diachronic variation

Variation over time

Synchronic variation

Language variation in time, such as social and regional uses

Temporal dialect

Features distinctive to a particular time in history

Geographical dialect

Regional variation in dialect

Social dialect

Dialect local to social, ethnic or occupational group

Idiolect

Personal language style influenced by age, social and regional background

Neologisms

New word formation or new words entering the language

Borrowings

Words directly taken from other languages

Compound words

Relating to usage e.g laptop

Derivations

Building on new usage, usually with suffixes and prefixes e.g re-tweet