discourse + pragmatics Flashcards
coherence
means texts are understood, follows agreed english rules
cohesion
establishing connections within a text
- lexical choices
- info flow
- referencing
- ellipses and substitution
- conjunctions and adverbials
- contrastive + cause and effect
lexical choices
using words from same semantic field
info flow
info is in chronological order, layout makes sense
referencing
use of pronouns and continuation of subject and object
ellipses and substitution
leaving out or substituting repetitive details
conjunctions and adverbials
joining words and phrases
contrastive + cause and effect
show relationship between ideas
spoken discourse features
- openings
- closings
- adjacency pairs
- overlapping speech
- interrogative tags
- discourse particles
- minimal response/back channeling
openings
salutations - hi, dear
vocatives - mr, miss, dr
closings
formulaic utterances - okay, thankyou, bye
adjacency pairs
taking turns in spoken discourse eg how are you? good thanks
overlapping speech
when people talk over eachother
interrogative tags
the tags at the end of statement turning into a question eg so you’ll be back on Friday, will you?
discourse particles
things like well, yeah-no, OMG, i guess, i think, a bit
