Discourse Flashcards
Discourse
Referring to the whole text
Self presentation of the writer
Personal pronouns, parentheses, humour
Positioning the audience
How the text producer places the audience
Linguistic Gatekeeping
Tell us how to speak and write
3 Prong approach
3 steps to analyse discourse
Prong one
How the subject matter is being presented
Prong 2
How the writers are presenting themselves and creating a voice
Prong 3
How the writers are a dressing and positioning the reader
Antithesis
A figure of speech which sharply contrasts ideas in a balanced or parallel phrase
Hyphora
A figure of speech that raises a question then answers it
Pathos
An emotional appeal
Ethos
Appeal to Ethics
Logos
Rational appeal
Polysyndetom
Deliberate and excessive use of coordinating conjunctions in successive words/ clauses
Anadiplosis
Last word/ phrase used in the next sentence/ phrase
Epizeuxis
A figure of emphasis on which the same word is repeated two or more things
Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnings of a phrase
Epitrophe
Last word in a phrase is repeated
Diecope
A figure of reputation in the same word or phrase occurs