Sign - The object being referred to, Signifier - The word/sounds the represent the object, Signified - The concept of meaning of the object, Subsystems - Phonology, Morphology, Lexicology, Syntax, Discourse & Pragmatics, Semantics, Phonology - The study of sounds and how they're used, Morphology - The study of parts of words and how they come together, Lexicology - The study of words and they're types, Syntax - The study of how words are arranged to form sentences , Discourse - Is the study of how sentences come together to communicate meaning, Pragmatics - The study of context affects the meaning of language, Semantics - The study of meaning in language, Situational Context - How the environment or circumstances effects meaning, Register - The formality of the communicative situation, Tenor - The relationship between the participates in conversation, Function - The role language plays in a particular context, Setting - The immediate social and physical context the conversation takes place, Mode - The= form of communication and the medium, Field - THe specific focus or content of the conversation, Cultural Context - The influence someone's culture has on their speech and vocabulary , Referential - Conveying information or distributing facts, Emotive - Expresses the speaker's feelings, attitudes or emotions, Conative - Aims to get the listener to do something, Phatic - Establishing or maintaining social connection through conversation, Metalinguistic - Discusses language itself, explains terms or asks about meanings, Poetic - Focuses on the aesthetic or creative aspect of language., Voicing - The activation of the vocal cords when speaking, Manner of Articlutaltion - Stops, fricatives, affricatives, nasals, laterals and approximates, Place of articulation - Bilabial, Labial-velar, Labiodental, Dental, Alveolar, Palato-alveolar, Palatal, Velar and Glottal, Phoneme - The smallest unit of sound that makes up every word we speak,

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