Comparing and contrasting texts

Question 1

what are the levels that you can compare ?

Answer 1

discourse structure , lexis and semantics , non fluency features (spoken) with graphology or punctuation (written), grammar, pragmatic

Question 2

what can be analysed for discourse structure of written texts?

Answer 2

how the text begins, what is introduced, how it develops and what the main body of the text is, how it shifts, how it concludes. how are ideas linked - connectives, ordering of the text

Question 3

what can be analysed for discourse structure of spoken texts?

Answer 3

framing, neutral/ self-related/other-related comment, opener, closer, phatic communication, backchannelling, agenda setting, topic management, interruptions, turn taking, adjacency pairs

Question 4

what can be analysed for lexis and semantics?

Answer 4

neologism, colloquialism, sociolect, dialect, idiolect, low/high frequency lexis, taboo, informal/formal language

Question 5

what can be analysed for non-fluency features?

Answer 5

micropause, timed pause, hesitation, false-start, elongation, elision, ellipsis, filler

Question 6

what can be analysed for grammar?

Answer 6

sentence structures, imperative, interrogative, declarative, use of connectives, passive or active, minor sentence, tenses

Question 7

what can be analysed for graphology?

Answer 7

headings, font, pictures

Question 8

what can be analysed for pragmatics?

Answer 8

speech act theory, goffman’s face theory, negative and positive politeness, accommodation, grice’s maxims,