The Alternative Dictionary of TEFL acronyms etc Part 18
British National Corpus – the official body responsible for the death of UK society
CDA – Critical Discourse Analysis – using discourse analysis to slag people off
content words- vocabulary used by happy people
core lexicon – a capsule hidden deep in the earth containing key vocabulary items, to be dug up when (someday soon) the media, politicians and young people become entirely incapable of producing a sentence with meaning
Field of Discourse (the) – the Glastonbury farm where the famous 1969 Discourse Analysis Free Festival was held
General Service List – General (later Field Marshall) Service’s blacklist of left-leaning linguists
Grice’s four Maxims- his theory of what makes a good lad magazine- quantity (of breasts), quality (ditto), relations (feeling you have really got to know said breasts), and (finding yet another) manner (in which to portray them)
headwords – words you can’t get out of your brain, like an annoyingly catchy tune
hedging – a variation on cottaging
inflexion – warm up exercises for grammarians
insertion sequences – the steps before getting laid
interlocutor- chained between two people (an S&M thing)
lexical density – showing you are thick by your choice of words
lexical pattern- wallpaper and lampshades printed with words, available from the COBUILD catalogue
Not many this time, so you’ll be wanting to have a look at Part 17 and/ or all the definitions from Parts 1 to 16.
Tags: ELT jargon
