Language and Occupation Revision

Occupational lexis (OL)

Semantic field

Restricted OL

Idiom

Discourse structure

Discourse patterns

Discourse community

Pragmatics

Inferential frameworks

Hierarchy of power

Asymmetrical relationship

Phatic talk

Solidarity

Occupational phonology

Occupational prosody

Lingua franca

Native speakers

Non-native speakers (EAL)

Nexus

Jargon

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Michael Nelson

John Swales

Drew and Herritage

Almut Koester

Hyejeong Kim & Catherine Elder

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Language, Class and Region

Phoneme

Phonemic alphabet

Prosodic features

Shibboleth

Accent

Dialect

RP

SE

Prescriptivism

Descriptivism

Post-vocalic /r/

Cockney /h/

Glottal stop

L-vocalisation

Overt prestige

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William Labov

Daniel Jones

Peter Trudgill

Jenny Cheshire

Leslie and James Milroy

Lave & Wenger

Ellen Ryan

Hopper and Zhan

Penelope Eckart

Howard Giles

David Rosewarne

Kevin Watson

Basil Berstein

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Covert prestige

Repretoire of language

Dialeect vocabulary

Dialect grammar

Prepositions

Pronouns

Verb ‘to be’

Determiners

Double negatives

Convergence

Divergence

Matched Guise Technique

Regional rural accents

Regional urban accents

Estuary English

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Language and Gender

Sex

Gender

Socialisation

Stereotype

Folklinguistics

Deficit

Dominance

Difference

Performance

Masculine

Feminine

Manly

Lady-like

Overt Prestige

Covert Prestige

Tag questions

Hedges

Fillers

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Otto Jesperson

Peter Trudgill

Jenny Cheshire

Robin Lakoff

Janet Homes

Thorn and Henley

Pamela Fishman

Zimmerman & West

M Swacker

Jennifer Coats

Jane Pilkington

Koenraad Kuiper

Matthew Hassan

Deborah Tannen

Penelope Eckert

Deborah Cameron

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Intensifiers

‘empty’ adjectives

Overt politeness

Specialised vocabulary

Oblique or vague language

Verbosity

Turn-taking

Interruptions

Rapport vs Report

Sympathy vs Solution

Non-standard English

Standard English

Utterance

Variable

Marked term

Covert-marking

Modification using suffix

Verb processes

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