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as with any specialized activity, jargon and abbreviations pervade speech and debate activities. this guide covers some of the most essential terms of art that will alleviate your uncertainty as a new coach, as well as the hesitancy any students new to speech and debate may feel.
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Definition: The proposition team (or the first proposition team, in debates with more than two teams) should give a definition. This does not mean you get to decide what the debate should be about. Nor does it mean providing a dictionary definition of the words of the motion. The
- Haruko Momma
- accusative See case.
- borrowing See loan word.
- when it started to rain); a relative clause when introduced by a relative pronoun
- clear l See dark l.
- complement (C) See clause element.
The following glossary includes some of the linguistic terms found in this volume. The defi nitions provided here refl ect the way the terms are used by the authors. For more general or detailed defi nitions, consult dictionaries of linguistic terms or the glossaries appended to textbooks of the history of the English language. For terms related to...
acrolect See dialect, social. active See voice, grammatical.
C May stand for “consonant” as in CVC (consonant–verb–consonant, for words like cat), or for “complement” as in SVC (subject–verb–complement, for a clause like they are students). case Refers to infl ections, or grammatical forms, of pronouns, nouns, and adjectives to denote their syntactic functions within the clause. Old English had at least four...
like who or which (e.g., the children who were playing there went away).
cognate Having a common linguistic ancestor. Cognate languages have derived from a shared parent language: e.g., English and German from proto-Germanic. Cognate words derive from an earlier single word or word element: e.g., the English eight and the Latin octo from PIE *okto ̄(u).
compound A word consisting of two or more independently existing words: e.g., tablespoon, gentlewoman. In English, compounding has been a productive method of word formation. concord See agreement. conjugation The infl ection of verbs. A fi nite verb is conjugated or infl ected in cor-respondence with the subject of the clause: e.g., he likes to re...
Glossary of Key Debate Terms – The Jargon Explained. Here are some common terms that debaters use a lot. For a very thorough explanation of how to judge (both in and out of a nutshell), see http://members.aol.com/menick/judge.pdf.
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Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition, Bill VanPatten and Alessandro G. Benati Key Terms in Linguistics, Howard Jackson Key Terms in Translation Studies, Giuseppe Palumbo Key Terms in Phonology, Nancy C. Kula and Wyn Johnson Key Terms in Semantics, M. Lynne Murphy and Anu Koskela Key Terms in Discourse Analysis, Paul Baker and Sibonile Ellece
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For the AP exam, you should be able to describe an author’s diction (for example, formal or informal, ornate or plain) and understand the ways in which diction can complement the author’s purpose. Diction, combined with syntax, figurative language, literary devices, etc., creates an author’s style.
Semantics – study of meaning in language, includes the relations between language, thought and behavior. Speech disorder – any deviation of speech outside the range of acceptable variation in a given environment.
