Discourse Flashcards
What is discourse structure?
How texts are structured
What is a verb tense?
The tense when the action takes place
What is anaphoric referring?
Referring back, the name given at the start
What is cataphoric referring?
Referring forward, the name given later
What is exophoric referencing?
Referring to something outside the text
What is endophoric referencing?
Refers to something within the text
Anaphoric and cataphoric
What is substitution?
The use of words to avoid repetition
What is ellipsis?
Missing out words to avoid unnecessary repetition
What are connectives?
Words that link sentences in paragraphs
What are discourse markers?
Words that show the direction the text is going in
(furthermore, firstly)
What is an adjunct?
Non-essential things added to clauses
(see you in the morning instead of see you)
What are disjuncts?
Adverbs that add an attitude or opinion
What is a semantic field?
A set of related items
What is coherence?
Making sense
What did William Labov suggest?
a structure for explaining how speakers tell stories
What is Labovs order?
1- Abstract
2- Orientation
3- Complicating action
4- Resolution
5- Evaluation
6- Coda
What is the Abstract?
Signals that the story going to begin
What is the Orientation?
Putting the story into context
(who, when and where)
What is the Complicating action?
The ‘what happened’ element
What is the Resolution
What finally happened
What is the evaluation?
Whats diff between internal and external
Tells us why the stories being told
Internal- Part of the story
External- General comment
What is the coda?
Signals that the story is finished
Whos theory was the alternative to labovs?
Goodwins
What did Goodwin suggest?
That stories often involve more than 1 speaker
