dominant reading | | the internal linkage of linguistic elements within a text. |
genre | | conformity to the established and accepted rules of grammar |
place deictics | | the joining together of two words or word-parts, the latter usually being produced by clipping |
texture | | suggestive meaning: the associations that are called up by a word |
blending | | a quality or process that can be described in terms of ‘more’ or ‘less’; not clear-cut |
collocation | | textual elements such as here, there, behind, to the left which refer the listener or reader to the situational point of view of the speaker or writer in the discourse. |
gradable | | the reading of a text that appears to be the most obvious and natural one because it is upheld by the dominant ideologies about the role of women in the society of the time |
homonymy | | a culturally specific text type |
metonymy | | a figure of speech that consists of using the name of one thing for the name of sth. else with which it is connected in some respect |
ambiguity | | the convergence of two grammatical structures into one to create a double meaning |
connotation | | metaphorically, the quality of a piece of literary writing in terms of its specific linguistic features, its choices of style |
co-text | | the existence for a given form of two or more quite separate meanings. |
grammatical well-formedness | | a combination, usually of two lexical items in a grammatical pattern, in which one is used in a literal sense and the other in a figurative sense |