Chapter9. Landguage and literature.pptVIP

A branch of linguistics which studies the features of situationally distinctive uses (varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular choices made by individual and social groups in their use of language. The first meaning for a word that a dictionary definition gives A way of comparing one thing with another, of explaining what one thing is like by showing how it is similar to another thing, and it explicitly signals itself in a text, with the words as or like. Like simile, it also makes a comparison between two unlike elements; but unlike a