Kayla Paulson's Vocab

Kayla's Vocab:

Paradigm
1. Description: constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them; Serving as a model or pattern
2. Part of speech: It is a noun.
3. Picture: <-- 4. Related words: archetype (synonym), pattern (synonym), and anomaly
(antonym). 5. Sentence: Going into really psychology really expanded my paradigm and the way I think about things.



Philology
1. Description: studying literary texts for the purpose of determining their meaning, origin, etc; loving and learning literature 2. Part of speech: It is a noun.
3. Picture: <-- 4. Related words include: speech (etymology), philological (related), and philologist (related). 5. Sentence: I love reading poems to determine their meaning, I suppose that makes me a philologist.


Phonology
1. Description: Studying how a word is said and the history behind the sounds; studying the phonological systems
2. Part of speech: It is a noun.
3. Picture: <-- 4. Related words include: phonologically (related), pronunciation (synonym), and phonology (related) 5. Sentence: Learning the phonology of another another language while learning it is quite difficult.



Rhetoric
1. Description: using language effectively; writing in a persuasive way; influencing thought or conduct
2. Part of speech: It is a noun.
3. Picture: <-- 4. Related words include: balderdash (synonym), magniloquence (synonym), and
from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē), rhetorical "art" (etymology).
5. Sentence: Depending on how skilled you are, using rhetoric with your speech will either get you a long way or just make you look like you're trying too hard.



Syntax
1. Description: studying the relationships between words that determine their order in sentences; studying grammatical sentences
2. Part of speech: It is a noun.
3. Picture: <--
4. Related words include: stratification (synonym), Gk sýntaxis "an arranging in order" (etymology), and sentence fragment (antonym) 5. Sentence: Jill received a 100 on her grammar test because she understood syntax and the way words should be put together in a sentence to be grammatically correct.