Discourse Flashcards
What is discourse?
a term that is used interchangeably with “text:
what are discourses?
refers to repeated ways of representing people, things and ideas
Traditional Discourse - Ethos
known as an ethical appeal
Traditional Discourse - Logos
known as the logical appeal
Traditional Discourse - Pathos
known as the ‘pathetic’ appeal
Traditional modes of discourse - description
creates a verbal picture
Traditional modes of discourse - narration
tells a stroy
Traditional modes of discourse - argumentation
to convince the reader with logic
Traditional modes of discourse - exposition
serves as an umbrella term for several modes including itself
lexical field
a group of words related by meaning
syntactic parallelism
repetition in clauses, sentences, syntax, punctuation
anaphoric reference
word or phrase that refers back to the text
cataphoric reference
a word or phrase that goes ahead of the text
phonological cohesion
alliteration, consonance
graphological cohesion
using images to support text
