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[emiily]

Anyone have a concise and clear defintion for parallelism and an example?

parallelism is repetition of a series of similar grammatical structures.
example: their jobs are disappearing and their employers aren't speaking
structures are similar as it has: pronoun, noun, verb

[vcestudy123]

ok seeing as though my other question was answered so brilliantly.. if they ask for an explanation of how something is achieved with examples from syntax, lexis and discourse.. what sort of examples do you give that are 'discourse'??
thanks


haha does that make sense??

[TheJosh]

would you call 'dunno' a diminutive??

[emiily]

ok seeing as though my other question was answered so brilliantly.. if they ask for an explanation of how something is achieved with examples from syntax, lexis and discourse.. what sort of examples do you give that are 'discourse'??
thanks

discourse features are like coherence (inference) and cohesion (substitution, ellipsis, referencing, linking adverbs and conjunctions)
not sure if that helps though!

[ngRISING]

hmmph. explain 3 prosodic features. would falling intonations, continuing intonations be considered as 2 different prosodic features or one?

[meepcat]

"dunno" -> not a diminutive, it's a reduction with a touch of assimilation

[brenny]

in a sentence is the subject the main noun and is 'doing'? while the object is having 'dont to it' ?

in the sentence 'the dog ate my homework' and 'my homework was eaten by the dog' what would be the subject, object and predicate?

[TheJosh]

Assimilation? definition anyone?

[Harbourmastah]

What are some distinctive features of the Asian ethnolect within Australian english with referene to the ipa?

And and what's the difference between a discourse maker and a discourse particle?

[Harbourmastah]

Assimilation? definition anyone?

the process which refers to sound being altered to become closer to a neighbouring sound. E.g sandwich-samwich
- Insight

[TheJosh]

And and what's the difference between a discourse maker and a discourse particle?
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I think these are both the same thing, but not sure though.

In living lingo it shows the defintion as 'discourse marker(particles)

[lynt.br]

And and what's the difference between a discourse maker and a discourse particle?

I think these are both the same thing, but not sure though.

In living lingo it shows the defintion as 'discourse marker(particles)

They are very close to the same thing. It was stupid for insight to ask this as a question. I doubt they will come up in the exam.

The difference is a discourse particle serves some pragmatic or practical function (ie. 'You know', which functions to elicit an empathic response), whereas a marker serves no practical function and is usually just the result of the spontaneity of spoken dialogue (Think fillers and the like).

Really if they ask a question like this then the exam is pretty fail. This sort of stuff is pointless for differentiating students as it only really rewards students who memorised dictionary definitions and glossary terms.

[ngRISING]

hmmph. what are the changes in australian english. insight 08 essay >.>

[hyperblade01]

Go through the subsystems:

Phonology - accent chnages
Lexicology - picking up american terms, internet speak
Morphology - again internet making new words



etc etc

[lynt.br]

hmmph. what are the changes in australian english. insight 08 essay >.>

Huge topic. The internet, instant/electronic communication, mass media, globalisation, pervasiveness of American culture, decline of traditional Australian English, PC movement....