Graphology - How the design of a text can contribute o meaning including use of fonts, graphics, colours etc.
Lexis and Semantic - Words and meanings, the vocabulary of English including social and historic variation.
Grammar including morphology - How the design of a text can contribute to meanings including use of fonts, graphics, colours etc.
Pragmatics - How we know what language means when it is used in a specific context, sometimes described as 'reading between the lines.'
Discourse - extended stretches of communication occurring in different genres, modes and contexts.
Register - How language varies in relation to audience, purpose, and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.
Mode - How language may vary according to the channel of communication (speech, writing, and mixed modes) e.g. how you would write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.
Idiolect - The unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experience etc.
Sociolect - The way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, students speak etc.
Dialect - The variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. 'cheers drive' is a Bristloian saying, as is the grammatical structure 'Where's she too?'
The terminology which will be used commonly in my writing.
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