English Language VCE all metalanguage

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• Types affixes prefix suffix infix
• Bound morphemes prefixes suffixes attached make sense ing
• Morphemes free stand words that
• Prosodic features pitch stress volume tempo intonation
• Vocal effects coughs laughter breath
• Cultivated comparison general australian accent vowels rounded
• Clause complement word give extra information element subject
• Adverbial element clause structure subject verb object perform
• Types syntactic patterning antithesis listing parallelism
• Rhythm pattern stressed unstressed syllables speech
• Types prosodic patterning alliteration assonance consonance onomatopoeia rhythm
• Slang colloquial informal language peculiar distinctive social age
• Colloquial language/colloquialisms informal phrase word
• Double-speak language deliberately confuse mislead obscure downsizing operations
• Verb auxiliary precedes main cusch somtimes helping
• Verbs modal convey necessity possibility obligation probablity
• Interjections emotional words yuck shh
• Words function conjunctions prepositions auxiliary verbs determiners convey
• Words content carry main meaning sentence verbs nouns
• Inflection morphological term word formation type affix signals
• Derivational morphemes affixes change meaning class word unsatisfactory
• Initialisms set initials formed letter word phrase rsvp
• Blends word composed elements ginormous gigantic enormous
• Acronyms word formed inital letter anzac
• Shortenings morphological term referring shortened version longer word
• Compounding combining free morphemes form word armchair
• Collocations pairing group words frequently tropical paradise
• Neologisms word phrase language a
• Borrowing process acquiring words language
• Commonisation process proper noun brand common bandaid
• Archaism old-fashioned word expression longer common
• Word types morphological patterning conversion class creative formation
• Lexical patterning repition word identical form similar sing
• Cataphoric reference pronoun refers mentioned  was beautiful-a holiday
• Jargon language social group occupation instance law terms
• Assimilation process altering sound closer neighbouring sandwich samwich
• Vowel reduction omission unstressed voewls everyday speech literary
• Elision deletion sounds connected speech fish n chips
• Insertion phonological term referring additional sounds speech ease
• E assonance identical vowels words g t b
• Alliteration initial sounds consecutive words wonderful water
• Consonance t repetition sounds words whi e ga
• Onomatopoeia formation word formed imitation sound splash miaow
• Phrase group words finite verb red balloon noun
• Ellipses omission words phrases sentence meaing gauged context
• Nominalisation conversion verbs nouns failure fail finalise finalisation
• Coordination linking language units status fanboys
• Subordination clause dependent sentence signalled conjunction
• Antithesis juxtaposition contrasting words/ideas antonyms e.g big comfort
• Form listing syntactic patterning repetition grammatical structures list
• Parallelism repetition syntactic structures conquered
• Code-switching practice alternating languages dialects conversation
• Factors contribute text's coherence cohesion inference logical ordering
• Factors contribute text's cohesion lexical choice information flow
• Cohesive lexical devices synonymy antonymy hyponymy collocation
• Focus cohesive information flow clefting front end
• Features discourse spoken openings closings adjacency pairs overlapping
• List non-fluency features pauses filled pauses/voiced hesitations false
• Strategies spoken discourse topic management turn-taking minimal responses/back-channelling
• Features turn taking holding passing floor
• Coherence logical development integration speech writing makes text
• Coherence logical development integration speech writing makes text
• Text cohesion grammatical lexical linking iwth sentence holds
• Inference deduced implicit information cultural knowledge
• Synonymy words similar meaning peaceful tranquil
• Antonymy words opposite meaning e.g hot cold
• Hyponymy relationship general specific lexical items forexample dog
• Collocation pairing group words frequently e.g tropical paradise
• Information flow strategies presenting sentence front focus end
• Ice-cream clefting splitting single clause verb jenny ate
• Front focus placing start sentence information occur give
• End focus familiarinformation information prominence final part sentence
• Anaphoric reference pronouns refer back mentionedin sentence.eg cake
• Make sense deictics terms refer personal temporal locational
• Substitution cohesive device word substituted
• Openings closings beginnings endings dialogues formulaic expressions
• Adjecency pairs adjacent turns spoken discourse relate questions
• Interrogative tags expressions turn statements questions
• Discourse particles short expressions words important function speech
• Features non-fluency speech typical spontaneous discourse hesitations,pauses false
• Topic management conversational strategies controlling
• Strategies turn-taking conversational holding passing floor speaker conversation/dialogue
• Responses minimal cooperative backchannelling made speakers encourage interlocutors
• Back-channelling minimal responses support encouragement acknowledgement conversation e.g
• Semantic fields topics subjects vocabulary
• List semantic patterning irony metaphor oxymoron simile personification
• Irony form figurative language implication opposite stated humorous
• Language metaphor type figurative non-literal express concept idea
• Simile figure speech makes comparison things strong ox
• Personification figurative language non-human things human qualities
• Animation process giving animate living qualities
• Puns play words humorous suggest meanings
• Ambiguity lexical arises due alternative meanings word
• Sense relations  synonymy antonymy hyponymy idiom denotation connotation
• Idiom idiomatic expression non-literal kick bucket
• Denotation dictionary definition word the
• Literal connotation set associations implied word addition meaning
• Euphemism mild polite word expression place potentially upsetting
• Dysphemism harsh offensive word expression place neutral carked
• Registry term refers degrees formality discourse speech writing
• Overt standard norms language choices english prestige acquired
• Covert norms language varieties non-standard english prestige wqithin
• Non-standard english language varieties conform standard prestige aboriginal
• English variety standard dominant prestige official public purposes.it
• Language politically correct terminology arising society's desire reflects
• Language taboo topics considered society unacceptable polite situations
• Public language domain politics media business bureaucracy education
• Rhetoric persuasive language public domain
• One's positive face respected made feel good refers
• Negative face autonomous act impostion refers one's freedom
• Situational context function field mode setting relationship participants
• Cultural context values attitudes beliefs held participants wider
• Social purpose functions language relationships power structures encouraging
• Ethnolect variety language spoken ethnic group migrant englishes
• Sociolect variety language social group age socio economic
• Idiolect person's individual style speech marked idiosyncratic highly

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