terms (methods)

Discourse

Extended stretches of communication; one complete text with structure and cohesion

Graphology

The visual aspects of textual design and appearance

Lexis

The vocabulary system; the words and phrases of a language

Morphology

The system of word formation; building lexemes from smaller units

Phonology

Production and description of the sounds of a language

Phonetics

The articulation of particular sound units

Prosody

The volume, pitch, tempo and stress of speech

Pragmatics

Social convections and implied meanings encoded in language

Semantics

The meaning of language and how it is generated within texts

Grammar

The structural patterns and shapes of language, at sentence, clause and phrase