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AQA A-Level English Language

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Flashcards for AQA A-level English Language (7702), split into the specification's areas of study: language levels and methods of analysis, meanings and representations, language diversity, language change, child language acquisition, language discourses and language in action. Terms, theorists and key facts, with a subdeck for each level of language.

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What is inside (68 subdecks)

  • 1. Language levels and methods of analysis880 cards
    • 1. Phonetics, phonology and prosodics164 cards
      • Accent and speech features49 cards
      • Prosody32 cards
      • Speech sounds and articulation83 cards
    • 2. Lexis and semantics158 cards
      • Figurative language30 cards
      • Meaning and word relations89 cards
      • Word formation39 cards
    • 3. Grammar247 cards
      • Adjectives, adverbs and other classes42 cards
      • Nouns, pronouns and determiners45 cards
      • Phrases and clauses54 cards
      • Sentences and functions42 cards
      • Verbs64 cards
    • 4. Morphology45 cards
    • 5. Pragmatics87 cards
    • 6. Discourse and spoken language117 cards
      • Spoken interaction74 cards
      • Structure of texts and narratives29 cards
      • Transcription14 cards
    • 7. Graphology and multimodal texts62 cards
  • 2. Meanings and representations167 cards
    • 1. Audience, purpose, genre and mode63 cards
    • 2. Meaning and representation74 cards
    • 3. Textual variation and older texts30 cards
  • 3. Language diversity359 cards
    • 1. Concepts of variation and standard English54 cards
    • 2. Regional varieties in the British Isles59 cards
    • 3. Research into social variation29 cards
    • 4. Social groups: class, age and occupation38 cards
      • Age and occupation28 cards
      • Social class10 cards
    • 5. Gender and language74 cards
      • Theories of gender difference74 cards
    • 6. Ethnicity and world Englishes83 cards
      • Ethnicity and multilingualism47 cards
      • World Englishes36 cards
    • 7. Attitudes to language diversity22 cards
  • 4. Language change217 cards
    • 1. Old English and Middle English46 cards
      • Middle English20 cards
      • Old English26 cards
    • 2. Early Modern English41 cards
    • 3. Late Modern and Present-day English67 cards
      • Late Modern English35 cards
      • Present-day English32 cards
    • 4. Causes and processes of change30 cards
    • 5. Attitudes to language change33 cards
  • 5. Child language acquisition342 cards
    • 1. Stages of spoken development47 cards
    • 2. Phonological development33 cards
    • 3. Lexical and semantic development22 cards
    • 4. Grammatical and pragmatic development72 cards
      • Grammar45 cards
      • Pragmatics and functions27 cards
    • 5. Theories of language acquisition89 cards
      • Behaviourist and nativist theories41 cards
      • Cognitive and social interactionist theories48 cards
    • 6. Written language development and literacy79 cards
      • Literacy and reading36 cards
      • Stages of writing43 cards
  • 6. Language discourses37 cards
    • 1. Texts about language24 cards
    • 2. Writing about language for non-specialists13 cards
  • 7. Language in action82 cards
    • 1. Planning and carrying out an investigation69 cards
    • 2. Original writing and commentary13 cards

Some of its cards

  • Dialect
    A variety of a language with its own vocabulary and grammar, linked to a region or social group
  • Age-grading
    A language feature that changes as a person gets older, and then repeats with each new generation
  • A study of how Norwich speakers of different classes and both sexes pronounced variables such as "-ing"
    Trudgill's Norwich study
  • A person's feeling about a variety or a way of speaking
    Language attitude
  • A written reflection on the choices made in an original piece of writing
    Commentary
  • A way of talking or writing about language, its use and its users
    Language discourse
  • A language that arose from contact between English and West African languages in Jamaica
    Jamaican Creole
  • Brown's stages
    Roger Brown's stages of grammatical development, based on the mean length of utterance
  • The English of about 1700 to 1900, shaped by dictionaries, grammars and the Industrial Revolution
    Late Modern English
  • The view that women's language is weaker or lacking compared with men's
    Deficit approach

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