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Items in bold are headers and should not be used as tags.

  • Idiom
  • Irony
  • Genre - (examples when other speech genres are used in the clip)
    • Book (i.e., reading from a book)
    • Monologue (e.g., stream of consciousness or a long speech)
    • Letter
    • Narrator (a narrator’s/character’s voice-over commenting on events)
    • Newspaper
    • Poetry
    • Proverb
    • Radio
    • Riddle
    • Song
    • Speech (formal presentation to an audience)
    • Telegram
    • Theater (scenes on stage)
    • Video (scenes where video is being created)
  • Gesture (any significant, culturally-based gesture)
  • Grammar (NB: tag for grammar only when the grammar is particularly noteworthy in the clip; e.g., noted use of a tense or morphological form, metalanguage about grammar, etc. NB: effective 12/15/2011, the only grammar tag is “grammar”. If desired, you can describe the specifics in the pedagogical notes section, e.g., aspect, frequent use of perfect tense, etc.)
  • Lexicon
    • Honorifics (e.g., Japanese keigo; for the various levels of Japanese keigo, type in the Japanese term, e.g. 尊敬語, 謙譲語, 丁寧語)
    • Names (talking about names, naming children, marked use of names or nicknames)
    • Numbers (large number of numbers in a clip)
    • Taboo
      • Profanity (4-letter words)
      • Blasphemy (denigration of religion, religious symbols)
      • Euphemism
      • Scatology (dealing with defecation, urination, passing gas)
  • Metaphor
  • Language play (puns, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.)
  • Sociolect (language use that reveals information about a speaker’s social or economic or regional group)
    • Antiquated
    • Bookish
    • Bureaucratic
    • Dialect (i.e., regional; indicate specific dialects either in clip description or in pedagogical notes)
    • Gender
      • Male (highly marked male speech)
      • Female (highly marked female speech)
    • Jargon (professional, such as computer jargon, medical jargon, etc.)
    • Non-native (language accented by speakers whose native language is another)
    • P/A, i.e., public formal announcement, e.g., at airports or train stations
    • Register (unusual informal/formal distinctions; use of the wrong register)
    • Slang (non-normative use of language, e.g., by youth, less well educated; any subversion of the standard)

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