L101

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    • What is the purpose of an abstract in storytelling?

      It summarizes the story and captures attention
    • How do storytellers typically begin their stories?
      With a brief summary to engage the audience
    • What is an abstract noun?

      A noun describing a non-physical concept
    • What characterizes academic discourse?
      It is concise, formal, and precise
    • What does academic voice refer to?
      Demonstrating understanding through one's own words
    • How does accent influence communication?
      It indicates regional or social-class background
    • What is accommodation in speech?
      Strategies to adapt speech to others
    • What is the role of addressivity in communication?
      It influences the style of speaking or writing
    • What is an adjective?
      A word that modifies a noun
    • What does an adverb do?
      It modifies a verb or an adjective
    • What is an affordance in communication?
      Possibilities a mode or medium provides
    • What is alliteration?
      Repetition of initial sounds in words
    • What is the alphabet?
      A set of symbols representing sounds
    • What is ambiguity in language?
      A word having two distinct meanings
    • What does Anglophone mean?
      'English-speaking' in various contexts
    • What is an antonym?
      A word with an opposite meaning
    • What is applied linguistics?
      The study of language in real-life contexts
    • What does appropriateness refer to in language?
      Language suitable for specific contexts
    • What is an article in grammar?
      A word indicating specificity of a noun
    • What is avoidance language?
      Strategies to avoid certain banned words
    • What is back-channelling in conversation?
      Listener's utterances showing attentiveness
    • What does bidirectional mean in language?
      Language affects society and vice versa
    • What is big data?
      Large amounts of data for analysis
    • What does bilingual mean?
      A person who speaks two languages
    • What is bilingualism?
      The ability to speak two languages
    • What does binary refer to?
      A clear division into two categories
    • What are binary opposites?
      Two discrete entities with no overlap
    • What does bottom-up refer to?
      Principles shaped by local community practices
    • What is a clause?
      The basic building-block of a sentence
    • What is a coda in storytelling?
      It returns the listener to the present
    • What is cognitive linguistics?
      The study of language as a mental instrument
    • What is collocation?
      A string of words often found together
    • What is a common noun?
      A noun denoting a class of things
    • What is a communicative norm?
      Normal attitudes or behaviors in a group
    • What is communicative practice?
      Using modes to achieve communication purposes
    • What are communicative purposes?
      Specific intentions behind communication instances
    • What is a communicative resource?
      Any resource used for communication
    • What defines a community in language?
      A group sharing social values and language
    • What is complicating action in storytelling?
      Main events around which the story revolves
    • What is a concrete noun?
      A noun denoting a physical thing
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