Terminology - Discourse

Question 1

Discourse marker

Answer 1

Words, phrases, or clauses that help to organise what we say or write e.g ‘ok, so as i was saying’

Question 2

Discourse

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The ways in which a text is constructed beyond the lexical, grammatical and syntactical structures. It is the way the overall text is structured

Question 3

Adjuncts

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Non essential elements of clauses (usually adverbials) that can be omitted e.g ill see you (in the morning)

Question 4

Disjuncts

Answer 4

Sentence adverbs that work to express an attitude or stance towards material that follows e.g sadly, no one survived

Question 5

Interdiscursivity (intertextuality)

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The use of discourses from one field as part of another e.g the use of commercial discourses in education or science discourses in the selling of beauty products

Question 6

Critical discourse analysis

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The use of linguist analysis to explore and challenge the ideologies, positions and values of texts and their producers

Question 7

Anaphoric reference

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Making reference back to something previously mentioned in the text

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Cataphoric reference

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Making reference forwards to something as yet unidentified in a text e.g it was warm, it was living, it was a rabbit

Question 9

Exophoric reference

Answer 9

Making reference to things beyond the language of a text itself perhaps within a speakers immediate physical context e.g look at that