English Language Revision Crossword 1

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Across
  1. 2. For example "Watch Out!" and "Your headlights are on!" Often used as a strategy to shock the listener and most often used by people who have a close relationship with the audience (4,2,6)
  2. 4. A word or phrase included within that of another word, means under word in Greek (7)
  3. 5. Developed by Jean Berko and Roger Brown in 1960. A child who used the word 'fis' for a fish didn't recognise an adults use of the word 'fis' (4,10)
  4. 8. American linguist who developed the Wug Test for child grammar development in 1958 (4,5)
  5. 10. Female linguist who found that common adjectives are often a child's first words, whereas spatial adjectives are often acquired later. Supports Piaget (3,5)
  6. 11. A maxim by Geoffrey Leech that means to minimise enmity between self and others, submaxim is to maximise empathy between self and others (8)
  7. 12. Defined by Brown and Levinson in 1978 as the desire to be approved of, ie maintain a positive and consistent self image during the interaction (8,4)
  8. 13. ANAG. Leech maxim that suggests that speakers aim to minimise benefit to self, submaxim is to maximise cost to self. (Oy, it's green)
  9. 16. Developed in 1978 by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson and suggests that Face can be broken down into two concepts (10,6)
Down
  1. 1. Theory by Geoffrey Leech in 1983 that suggested that there were 6 maxims and submaxims to follow as a prerequisite for conversational cooperation (10,10)
  2. 3. A maxim by Geoffrey Leech that means to minimise dispraise of others, submaxim is to maximise praise of others (11)
  3. 6. A measure of a child's ability to produce stretches of language (3)
  4. 7. A maxim by Geoffrey Leech that means to minimise the cost to others, submaxim is to maximise benefit to others (4)
  5. 9. Umbrella group of words, for example penguin, owl, pigeon = bird, means over word in Greek (8)
  6. 14. Defined by Brown and Levinson in 1978 as the desire to feel unimpeded, ie the freedom from feeling imposed upon by the interaction (8,4)
  7. 15. A maxim by Geoffrey Leech that means to minimise the praise to self, submaxim is to maximise dispraise of self (7)