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The document discusses various linguistic concepts including parts of speech, grammatical structures, rhetorical devices, and levels of language. It covers topics such as active voice, clauses, conjunctions, connotation, dialect, discourse, ellipsis, formality, genre, hedges, idioms, intonation, irony, and other linguistic elements and their relationships.
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Semantic is the study of meaning in language. It examines meaning at several linguistic levels, including phonology, morphology, and lexical meaning. At the phonological level, sound symbolism refers to an association between a word's sound and its meaning. Morphology considers how word structure and morphemes convey different types of meaning, such as plurality, possession, and tense. Lexical meaning looks at open class words like nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, as well as closed class words like prepositions, determiners and conjunctions. Semantic explores meaning across these linguistic levels to understand how language communicates meaning.
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- 1. Accent Acronym Active Voice Adjacency pair Adjective Ambiguity Anaphoric Amelioration Anthropomorphism reference 1
- 2. Bound Cataphoric Assonance morpheme reference Subordinate or Clause dependent Closing clause Cohesion Conjunction Connotation 2
- 3. Co-operative Deictic Consonant principle references Derivational Denotation Dialect morpheme Diphthong Discourse Ellipsis 3
- 4. Filler Finite verb Foregrounding Formality Fricative Generic Genre Hedges Homophone 4
- 5. Hyperbole Hyponym Iconic Idiom Informality Initialism Intransitive Intertextuality Intonation verb 5
- 6. Irony Lexeme Loan words I 6