Exam content

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 

-          Halliday

-          High frequency lexis/low frequency lexis

Written:

-          Pronoun

-          Adjective

-          Verbs

-          Adverbs

-          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