Discourse Flashcards
- Requires one to indetify and understand strings of words in a fluid manner
- multifaceted process
- complex cognitive process
Reading
Stretch of language which is perceived as a purposeful connected whole
Text
- The study of human action, thought, linguistic signs
- Can you pass me the salt?
Pragmatic
- study of relationship between words and how we draw meaning from those words
- Crash (accidents, attend toma party without invite)
Semantic
- Any stretch of language larger than a sentence
- meaning i derived through the readers interaction with yhe text
Discourse
A continuos sequence of sounds forming utterances or conversations in spoken language
Connected Discourse
Express truth based on sommon sense
Proverb
Fundamental unit of lexicon of a language
Lexeme
Smallest syntactical linguistic unit that contains a word
Morpheme
Smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation
Phoneme
A form of discourse that srrves to explain
Exposition
A form of discourse that describes
Description
What is Visual, Tactual, Auditory, Gustatory
Sight, Feel, Hear, Taste
What is Smell, Movement, Heat
Olfactoy, Kinesthetic, Thermal
A form of discourse that tells a story
Narration