English Informality SAC Revision

What is the referential function?

describes language users sharing information with their intended audience. The info may or may not be true but the message being presented is factual and objective

What is the conative function?

Involves directions, questions and commands. Messages with a conative function aim to cause the audience to react in some way

What is the phatic function?

creates and maintains social connection between the writer or speaker and their audience. These messages tend to be somewhat meaningless outside a social context

What is the poetic function?

focuses on the message itself, rather than on the communicators. It is sometimes referred to as the aesthetic function because these texts are created with consideration of the beauty or wit of thw words within the text

What is the emotive function?

Allows user to express emotions and desires. its sometimes referred to as the expressive function. This function is usually about the adresser and their presentation of emotion - real or not

What is the metalinguistic function?

Describes language itself. It is the language used to talk about language such as when metalanguage is used. The metalinguistic function allows speakers to check whether they have been understood or are using the right type of language for the conversation

What’s regsiter, tenor and audience?

Register - the level of formality of the text give

Tenor - the level of closeness/distance between participants, focuses on the language not relationship

Audience - the intended target of a text

What 5 things are in situational context?

what does cultural context entail?

What are the FEATURES of spoken discourse in informal texts? (POODIMAN)

What are the features of informal speech and writing? (written texts)

What makes up Phonological Patterning?

What makes up Morphological patterning?

what makes up Syntactic patterning?

What makes up Semantic patterning?

What are the discourse strategies used by speakers and the ways in which cooperation can be achieved?

What are the uses of IFL for various purposes and intents?

What makes up coherence?

What makes up cohesion?

What makes up connected speech processes?

What are prosodic features?

What makes up word classes?

what makes up word formation processes?

What are the different type of phrases?

What makes up clauses and what are the different type of clauses?

What are the different types of sentence structures?

What are the different types of sentence types?

What makes up word order?

What are paralinguistic features?

What is semantic domain?

What is inference?