English Language 2

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Decks in this class (16)

Theory: Regional and National Varieties Terminology
What is the matched guise 1,
What is a shibboleth 2,
What is yod coalescence and examp...
9  cards
Theory: Regional and National Varieties Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Giles matched guise experiment 1,
Kerswill dialect levelling 2,
Mugglestone rp speakers 3
14  cards
Theory: Social Groups Terminology
What is overt prestige 1,
What is covert prestige 2,
What is convergence 3
5  cards
Theory: Social Groups Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Age 1,
Teenspeak contains 2,
Linguistic norms 3
24  cards
Theory: Occupation Terminology
What is jargon and examples 1,
What is hierarchy 2,
What is phatic conversation 3
4  cards
Theory: Occupation Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Discourse communities 1,
Jargon identity 2,
Jargon 3
14  cards
Theory: Gender Terminology
The dominance model 1,
The deficit model 2,
The difference model 3
3  cards
Theory: Gender (The Dominance Model) Theorists, Expirments and Studies
Male as norm 1,
Marked terms 2,
Negative terms 3
13  cards
Theory: Gender (The Deficit Model) Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Lakoff different features 1,
O barr and atkins deficit languag...,
Jesperson non fluency features 3
4  cards
Theory: Gender (The Difference Model) Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Tannen six different ways 1,
Coates conversations 2,
Cameron bitching 3
9  cards
Essay Plan: Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Spender male as norm the dominanc...,
Zimmerman and west men interrupt ...,
Beattie zimmerman and west study ...
47  cards
Theory: Language Change, Historical Change Theorists, Experiments and Studies
General lexical lexical invention 1,
General lexical lexical invention...,
General lexical lexical invention...
42  cards
Theory: Language Change Terminology
Define prescriptivism 1,
Define descriptivism 2,
Define archaic 3
7  cards
Theory: Language Change, Technological Change Theorists, Experiments and Studies
General changes in orthography 1,
Linguistic compression 2,
Tone intonation and paralinguisti...
13  cards
Theory: Language Change, Modelling Change Theorists, Experiments and Studies
Prescriptivist views categorised ...,
All prescriptivist views 2,
Functional theory 3
12  cards
Theory: World English Theorists, Experiments and Studies
General american 1,
Webster american blue back speller 2,
Engel american americanisms 3
22  cards

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