Frameworks;

Phonetics, phonology and prosodics- how speech,sounds and effects are articulated&analysed.
Examples; onomatopoeia and alliteration.

Graphology, visual aspects of textual design and appearance- this includes form, purpose and audience.
Examples; font, punctuation and emojis.
Look at technology to study this.

Lexis and semantics- this means, words and meanings, looking at vocabulary of English, including social and historical variation.

Grammar- including morphology, structural patterns and shapes of English at sentence, clause, phrase&word level.

Pragmatics/meaning- the contextual aspects of language use.

Discourse- extended stretches of communication occuring in different genres, modes&context.
(How it looks)

Register- how language varies in relation to audience, purpose and context e.g. a formal letter uses a different register to one written to a friend.

Mode- how language may vary according to the channel of communication (speech,writing and mixed modes) e.g. how you would write something down as a message would be different from how you would pass it on orally.

Idiolect- the unique way one person expresses themselves due to their personality, belief systems, social experiment etc.

Sociolect- the way of expressing themselves that a social group have in common e.g. we could generalise the way teenagers speak, aristocrats speak, students speak etc.

Dialect- the variation in word choice and grammatical structure due to where someone lives e.g. "Cheers drive" is a Bristolian saying, as is the grammatical structure "Where's she to?"

This terminology/ these frameworks are to be used throughout AS and A level English language. So it is essential to become familiar with them.