Lexis & Grammar

A01 – linguistic analysis

A02 – Stages + theory

A03 – Context

 

Lexis

 Spoken: Features of spontaneous speech

-  Phatic talk/taboo language

-   Non-fluency features: fillers, hedges, ellipsis, overlap, back channel, False starts

-   Adjacency pairs

-   Grice’s maxims

-   Idiolect, sociolect

-  Transactional/Interactional talk

-  Discourse marker

-  Pragmatics

-  Paralinguistic features

-  Tag questions

-  High frequency lexis/low frequency lexis

Written:

-  Pronoun

- Adjective

- Verbs

- Adverb

- Nouns

- Conjunctions

- Determiners

 

Both:

-  Formality

-  Register

-  Discourse
-  Gender/power/technology

 

Grammar = Structure, context

-  Syntax (sentence structure)

-  Imperative (command)

-  Mitigated imperative (polite, using please)

-  Interrogative (question)

-  Declarative (statement)

-  Exclamative (!)

-  Pronouns, nouns, verbs, adjectives, modal verbs (outcome), adverbs, prepositions, determiners, conjunctions

- Semantics/pragmatics

- Noun phrases, pre-modified/post modified nouns

- Simple/compound/complex sentences

- Punctuation