Friday, 7 October 2011

Drafting process



Types of sentences-

Declarative sentence: a statement
Interrogative sentence: a question
Imperative sentence: a command
Exclamotory sentence: factual exclamation

Other glossary- deviations of Standard English

Sociolect: social grouping
Dialect: geography grouping
Ideolect: an individual's word use
Accent: the way you pronounce it

More words-

Lexis: words used
Lexical field: groups of words which share semantic value
Register: level of formality
Minor sentence: context dependent sentence which consist of minimal wording.

We annotated the opening of hard times written by charles dickens and had to find lexical features, phonological features, grammatical features and sematic features.

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