Main Features of Informal Texts
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Main Features of Informal Texts (Spoken and Written): Slang terms Colloquialisms Phrasal verbs (verb + preposition) Contractions Abbreviations/Acronyms/Initialisms Ellipsis Swearing/colourful language Discourse particles (like, you know) Interrogative tags Diminutives Simple and compound sentence structure – lack of complex/compound-complex sentences Inference Interrogative sentence types Non-standard orthography Capitalisation/Bolding/Italics Exclamation marks Features of spoken discourse The use of deictic expressions The use of personal pronouns (e.g. ‘I’, ‘We’) The use of active sentence structure as opposed to passive Beginning a sentence with a conjunction Emoticons Neologisms Idioms Assimilation Elision Reduction Shortenings
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Main Features of Informal Texts (Spoken and Written):
Slang termsColloquialismsPhrasal verbs (verb + preposition)ContractionsAbbreviations/Acronyms/InitialismsEllipsisSwearing/colourful languageDiscourse particles (like, you know)Interrogative tagsDiminutivesSimple and compound sentence structure lack of complex/compound-complex sentencesInferenceInterrogative sentence typesNon-standard orthographyCapitalisation/Bolding/ItalicsExclamation marksFeatures of spoken discourseThe use of deictic expressionsThe use of personal pronouns (e.g. I, We)The use of active sentence structure as opposed to passiveBeginning a sentence with a conjunctionEmoticonsNeologismsIdiomsAssimilationElisionReductionShortenings
