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Who invented the recent concept of ‘collocation’?

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In the 1950’s the linguist JK Firth coined the concept.

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What is ‘collocation’?

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Words which sound natural to a native speaker.
‘Tea’ is a weak collocation as many words can follow.
‘Black’ is a strong collocation, ‘board’ and ‘hole’.

2
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How else can an ‘idiom’ be referred to?

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Fixed expression.

‘Prime and proper’, ‘spick and span’ and ‘(it’s) raining cats and dogs’.

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What falls under ‘lexical collocations’?

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Natural and unnatural English.
Natural English is phrases like ‘a fast train’, ‘fast food’ and ‘a quick shower’. As opposed to unnatural English, ‘a quick train’ and ‘quick food’.

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Where does collocation occur?

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Brand names, advertising and tabloids; people who aren’t from a certain area wouldn’t understand.
‘Soap and glory’ and ‘drip, drip, hooray’.

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Contractions are?

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Shortened terms ‘I’m’, ‘don’t’ and ‘dunno’.

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What are ‘metaphors’?

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They are comparatives, something not possible.

‘The sun’s rays beat through my eyes’.

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What are ‘similes’?

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They use the word ‘like’ to compare.

‘The sun is like a ball of fire’.

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Slang can be colloquial, but why?

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Slang is known to a location and social class.

‘Proper sick’ and ‘deek’.

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Taboos are things that shouldn’t often happen. They are the uncommon things in society, usually leaving awkwardness. Give examples.

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‘Swearing in church’ and ‘dancing on the motorway’.

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We change how we speak in what we write and what we say, but how?

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In written text we tend to use Latinate and literate words as apposed to spoken language, where we use everyday speech.

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What is ‘hyperbole’?

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Exaggeration.