Glossary of Linguistic Terms [pic] Accelerando: Accelerando is the term when speech speeds up‚ and is said at a quicker pace. Accelerando is only for spoken‚ not written speech however. This obviously speeds up narrative pace and makes the mood more intense and dramatic. Acronym: An acronym is where words are shortened to just the first letter. E.G. ‘U.N’ is an acronym as it is short for ‘United Nations’. The effect of acronyms
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Contents |Introduction |3 | |1 Intonation |4 | |1.1 English intonation |4 | |1.2 Intonation of the
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Roland Barthes The Death of the Author In his story Sarrasine‚ Balzac‚ speaking of a castrato disguised as a woman‚ writes this sentence: "It was Woman‚ with her sudden fears‚ her irrational whims‚ her instinctive fears‚ her unprovoked bravado‚ her daring and her delicious delicacy of feeling" Who is speaking in this way? Is it the story’s hero‚ concerned to ignore the castrato concealed beneath the woman? Is it the man Balzac‚ endowed by his personal experience with a philosophy of Woman? Is it
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Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Bc. Radoslava Pekarová Evaluative Language in Journalistic Discourse Master’s Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Chovanec‚ Ph.D. 2011 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently‚ using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Author’s signature Acknowledgement I would like to thank to my supervisor
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Sampler Corpus).The vast majority of the examples in this essay were selected from the BNC Sampler Spoken Corpus‚ one example was drawn from the BNC Sampler Written Corpus. Pragmatics While ‘speak’ and ‘talk’ both have the sense of making an utterance‚ they focus on different aspects of this human behavior: ‘speak’ frequently express the ability to articulate sounds while ‘talk’ mainly focus on the process of the behavior itself. For example: Oh fuck so you struggled‚ you couldn’t speak‚ you know
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Part 1 I have selected an interview with X-Factor judge Kelly Rowland‚ in which she finds out that contestant Frankie Cocozza has been ’kicked off ’ of the show. Transcription methods vary depending on what the analyst chooses to investigate. In this particular case‚ as I was interested in‚ not only how the speakers perform social activities through language (Seedhouse‚ 2008)‚ but also the contribution of their non-verbal actions‚ I chose Conversation Analysis (CA). However‚ one must point
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piece of spoken discourse‚ we will exam the identify of the speaker‚ the purpose of the utterance‚ the perlocutionary effect of the utterance‚ and the context of the utterance. Elements like intonation‚ tone‚ and genre of the utterance also are included in the analysis. We can get a close look by the speaking mode presented by Dell Hymes’s SPEAKING model. The SPEAKING model is a method to analyze a piece of utterance‚ in which we‚ through the analysis of Setting and Scene‚ Participants‚ Ends (Purposes
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The setting itself is significant. 3 witches‚ or Weird Sisters‚ appear in a barren land called the heath‚ amidst abnormal weather conditions‚ thunder and lightning. Just like their appearance‚ ugly and repulsive‚ their dialog is full of strange utterances….foreshadowing what is to come‚ and building up a dramatic tension. They say that they will meet ‘when the hurly burly is done/when the battle’s lost and won’ Their words ‚ together with thunder and lightning‚ builds a kind of eeriness and
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STRUCTURALISM - A theoretical method which is analytical not evaluative. - A way of approaching texts and practices derived from Ferdinand de Saussure. Exponents of Structuralism include: |Name |Field | |Claude Lévi Strauss |Anthropology | |Roland
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1. Intonation: approaches‚ definitions‚ functions Intonation is a language universal. There are no languages which are spoken without any change of prosodic parameters but intonation functions in various languages in a different way. There are two main approaches to the problem of intonation in Great Britain. One is known as a contour analysis and the other may be called grammatical. The first is represented by a large group of phoneticians: H. Sweet‚ D. Jones‚ G. Palmer‚ L. Armstrong‚ I. Ward
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