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Principles of Language
Cooperative principle - In conversation analysis, the cooperative principle is the assumption
that participants in a conversation normally attempt to be informative, truthful, relevant,
and clear
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Semantics - the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning
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Pragmatics – the branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the context in which
it is used, the taking of turnsi9n conversation, text organisation, presupposition and
implication
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Register - is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social
setting
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Received Pronunciation - the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on
educated speech in southern England, widely accepted as a standard elsewhere
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Adjacency - the term used to describe the relationship between words used in a search
engine query
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Adverbial - a word or phrase functioning as a major clause constituent and typically
expressing place ( in the garden ), time ( in May ), or manner ( in a strange way )
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Idiomatic – peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect
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Taboo - a social or religious custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or
forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing
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Registers vary because the
language is used for different purposes, in different contexts and for different audiences
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We commonly recognise registers because of their
specialised vocabulary but also because of particular uses of grammar
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Ethnicity- a social group that has a national or cultural tradition
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Social variation- variety of different social groups
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Constructed dialogue- a term used in conversation analysis to describe a re-creation or
representation of actual, internal, or imagined speech in storytelling or conversation
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Sound symbolism-a sense of the word by its sound such as bang, wiz, fizz, pop
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Mode- a way in which something occurs, either experienced, expressed or done
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Stereotypes-oversimplified image or idea of what a person is like from what they look like
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Semiotics- the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation