Face
The persona that is displayed to others during social interaction. (sociolinguistics)
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Face-Threatening Acts
Speech acts that can threaten positive or negative face. (sociolinguistics)
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Factive Predicate
A predicate whose complement clause is presupposed to be true (semantics, pragmatics)
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Faithfulness Constraints
The constraints that require output forms to be the same as their corresponding input forms. (phonology)
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Father/Bother Merger
Dialects of English where “father” and “bother” are pronounced with the same vowel ([a:]) have undergone the ‘father/bother merger.’ (sociolinguistics)
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