Language methods: Discourse

Question 1

Define discourse

Answer 1

A general term for communication between participants.

Question 2

Define discourse community

Answer 2

Participants involved in a discourse.

Question 3

Define discourse structure

Answer 3

The internal structure of a text.

Question 4

Define discourse markers

Answer 4

Words, phrases or clauses that help to organise a text.

Question 5

Discourse Markers

Answer 5

Includes conjunctions or phrases like, ‘so you see’, ‘indeed’, ‘to put it mildly’

Question 6

Conjunction

Answer 6

But, however, therfore, then

Question 7

Cataphoric reference

Answer 7

A reference to something further on in the text.

Question 8

Anaphoric reference

Answer 8

A referrance to something that happend earlier in the text.

Question 9

Exophoric reference

Answer 9

Referring to something that is outside of the text.

Question 10

Endophoric reference

Answer 10

Referring to something within the text.

Question 11

Adjuncts

Answer 11

Non essential elements of the clause, when removed they do not structurally harm the text.

Question 12

Disjuncts

Answer 12

Sentence adverbs that express and attitude towards the material that follows.

Question 13

Lexical Cohesion

Answer 13

Using word meanings to connect different parts of the text.

Question 14

Ellipsis

Answer 14

Elliptical forms