repertoire media n. **** {also, by extension, the basic stock of knowledge of a person/group etc}
report-talk media n. used alongside the companion term ‘rapport-talk’, a way of characterizing the contrasting conversational styles of men and women. According to the American linguist, Deborah Tannen (b.1945), men use conversation more typically to exchange information impersonally (report-talk), whereas women more typically use conversation to focus on personal feelings and to build relationships (rapport-talk). Her claims are still regarded as unproven by linguists and sociolinguists. mmosyn. rapport-talk.
representation media n. the use of signs to stand in for and take the place of something else; a sign, image, symbol, statement or text that stands in place of some other absent aspect of reality so as to make it present. mmo
