Semantic Patterns

Semantic patterns:

• Parallelism: repetition, synonyms, semantic field
• Juxtaposition
• Hypernyms, homonyms

Social/cultural context:

• Gender, age, ethnicity
• Political  correctness
• Expectation for social equality
• Cultural sensitivity

Author's perspective:

• Positioning
• Pronouns, Opinion as fact (tense)

Technology:

• Infleunce of social media on language use
• Computer-mediated communciation