VCE English Language Metalanguage questions and answers with complete solutions
Accent - Answer A characteristic way of pronoungcing a language or a variety that is identified with national, regional, social or ethnic background. - This is sometimes confused with 'dialect', but it is possible to speak Standard English with an Australian, Queensland, older generation, or working class accent. Acronyms - Answer Words formed from the initials of other words. - a type of abbreviation. - VCAA, ATAR, NASA, RAM, LOL etc. Alphabetisms - Answer Words formed from the intials of other words, in which each letter is pronounced. - LMAO, VCE etc. Affixation - Answer A morphological process that involves the addition of bound morphemes (or affixes) to a word stem. - email, e-commerce etc (word class unchanged). - see also derivation versus inflection. Affixes - Answer Morphemes that can be added to a root/stem to form a more complex word. - Prefixes = in-, un-, non-, etc. - Infixes = -bloody-. - Suffixes = -ed, -s, -ing, etc. Archaism - Answer Words and construction no longer employed or transferred from earlier phases of a language.
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