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Discourse Flashcards

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1
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What is discourse structure?

A

How texts are structured

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2
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What is a verb tense?

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The tense when the action takes place

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3
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What is anaphoric referring?

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Referring back, the name given at the start

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What is cataphoric referring?

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Referring forward, the name given later

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What is exophoric referencing?

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Referring to something outside the text

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What is endophoric referencing?

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Refers to something within the text
Anaphoric and cataphoric

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7
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What is substitution?

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The use of words to avoid repetition

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8
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What is ellipsis?

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Missing out words to avoid unnecessary repetition

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9
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What are connectives?

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Words that link sentences in paragraphs

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10
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What are discourse markers?

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Words that show the direction the text is going in
(furthermore, firstly)

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What is an adjunct?

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Non-essential things added to clauses
(see you in the morning instead of see you)

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12
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What are disjuncts?

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Adverbs that add an attitude or opinion

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13
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What is a semantic field?

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A set of related items

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14
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What is coherence?

A

Making sense

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15
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What did William Labov suggest?

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a structure for explaining how speakers tell stories

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16
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What is Labovs order?

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1- Abstract
2- Orientation
3- Complicating action
4- Resolution
5- Evaluation
6- Coda

17
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What is the Abstract?

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Signals that the story going to begin

18
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What is the Orientation?

A

Putting the story into context
(who, when and where)

19
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What is the Complicating action?

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The ‘what happened’ element

20
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What is the Resolution

A

What finally happened

21
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What is the evaluation?
Whats diff between internal and external

A

Tells us why the stories being told
Internal- Part of the story
External- General comment

22
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What is the coda?

A

Signals that the story is finished

23
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Whos theory was the alternative to labovs?

A

Goodwins

24
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What did Goodwin suggest?

A

That stories often involve more than 1 speaker

25
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What was Goodwins order?

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1- Story preface
2- Story solicit
3- Preliminary to story
4- Story action
5- Story climax
6- Story appreciation

26
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What is the story preface?

A

Signal stories going to begin

27
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What is the story solicit?

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A response that someone else wants to listen

28
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What is the Preliminary to story?

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The background info (who, where, when)

29
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What is the Story action?

A

The main body of the story

30
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What is the Story’s climax?

A

Conclusion to story

31
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What is the story appreciation?

A

A response from the audience

32
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What is an ideology?

A

Set of beliefs and ideas that we are unconscious of

33
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What does satire mean?

A

The humorous challenging of someone’s ideology (values)

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