Linguistics, Literature, and Language Studies

Vocabulary flashcards generated from lecture notes covering key terms, authors, theories, and concepts in linguistics, literature, speech act theory, and research.

The literary technique used in modern movies where characters reflect original mythological characters.

Allusion

A common theme in Japanese Folklore.

Yokai

Symbolizes children, based on the poem Train Journey by Dennis Brutus.

Ostrich (in Train Journey)

Represents the various social overtones, cultural implications, or emotional meanings associated with a sign.

Connotation

The objective, literal meaning of a word.

Denotation

A process in language learning evident in errors like using "eated" instead of "ate" in the sentence "I called Mochi and checked if she eated already".

Overgeneralization

The type of research that is likely to lead to the discovery of a new theory.

Phenomenological Research

A felicity condition stating that words spoken must match the literal meaning and constraints of the act, such as a promise referring to a future action performed by the speaker rather than a past event.

Propositional Content Condition

A felicity condition stating that the speaker must have the proper authority and the situation must align with real-world prerequisites.

Preparatory Condition

A felicity condition stating that the speaker must genuinely hold the required thoughts, feelings, or intentions (e.g., promising with an intention to keep it).

Sincerity Condition

A felicity condition stating that the utterance must count as a commitment or an attempt to make the listener do something, recognized by both parties as a specific action such as a promise or a command.

Essential Condition

Linguistic authors associated with developments such as conversational analysis, gambits, adjacency pairs, and speech act theory.

John Austin, John Searle, and Dell Hymes

The phrase used by professional journalist Michael Green in the quote, "observe everyday life with _____ ".

A writer's eye

An artistically motivated deviation defined as a linguistic and literary strategy that makes specific words or phrases stand out from ordinary language to draw a reader's attention.

Foregrounding

Linguistic authors associated with concept developments such as pedagogical grammar, collocational grammar, ergative verbs, and semantic grammar.

Svardik, Geoffrey Leech, Celce-Murcia and Terence Odlin

An element that shows the line cuts within a line in poetry.

Hemistitch

A translation theory emphasizing that the translation process should be guided by the intended function or purpose of the target text.

Skopos Theory

Linguistic authors associated with concept developments such as genre analysis, macro-discourse patterns, text analysis, and micro-discourse analysis.

Michael Hoey, Winired Crombie, John Swales and Trimble