Discourse Flashcards

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Intertextuality

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Intertextuality is the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text.

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Interdiscursivity

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The use of elements in one discourse and social practice which carry institutional and social meanings from other discourses and social practices

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Foregrounding

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In literary studies and stylistics, foregrounding is a the linguistic strategy of calling attention to certain language features in order to shift the reader’s attention from what is said to how it is said.

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Discourse Markers

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Discourse markers are ‘word tags’ that are used at the beginning of sentences to help them seem clearer and more understandable.

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Point of View

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When we talk about ourselves, our opinions, and the things that happen to us, we generally speak in the first person

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Deixis

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In linguistics, deixis is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g., the words tomorrow, there, and they.

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Multimodality

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Multimodality has a twofold meaning: first it refers to the way in which a text has been designed, and second, it refers to the process involved during design.

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Discourse

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Discourse refers to the study of a text as a whole

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