Discourse

Question 1

Discourse

Answer 1

Way a whole text is organised + developed

Question 2

Discourse marker

Answer 2

Words, phrases or clauses that help to organise what we say or write

Question 3

Adjuncts

Answer 3

Non-essential elements of clauses (usually adverbials) that can be omitted.

Question 4

Disjunction

Answer 4

Sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follow

Question 5

Narrative structures

Answer 5

How events, actions and processes are sequenced when recounting a story

Question 6

Anaphoric reference

Answer 6

Making revenge back to something previously identified in a text

Question 7

Cataphoric reference

Answer 7

Making reference forwards to something as yet unidentified in a text

Question 8

Exophoric reference

Answer 8

Making reference to things beyond the language of a text itself, perhaps within a speaker’s immediate physical context

Question 9

Interdiscurivity (or intertextuality)

Answer 9

The use of discourses form one field as part of another

Question 10

Critical discourse analysis

Answer 10

The use of linguistic analysis to explore and challenge the ideologies, position and values of texts and their producers