Text as Connected Discourse

Question 1

“text can be used for both written and spoken language. It usually refers to a stretch, an extract, or a complete writing or speech. Texts generally adhere to broad conventions and rules determining the language and structure used in particular text types.”

Answer 1

Text according to Cornbleet and Carter

Question 2

The word “text” is derived from the Latid word ______ which means _______

Answer 2

“texere” - to weave

Question 3

According to Scott Thornbury, text in general are:

Answer 3

1) self-contained
2) well-formed
3) hang together (cohesive)
4) make sense (coherent)
5) have a clear communicative purpose
6) are recognisable text types
7) are appropriate to their contexts of use

Question 4

It can be anything from a grunt or single expletive, through short conversations and scribbled notes or a lengthy legal case.

Answer 4

discourse

Question 5

What are texts written for?

Answer 5

to send purpose and give specific message

Question 6

Texts are considered triumphant when it is ___________ and __________

Answer 6

well written and served its purpose

Question 7

Makes the text as connected discourse

Answer 7

form and function

Question 8

Originally, the word ‘discourse’ comes from the Latin word ‘__________’ which means ‘___________ ______’

Answer 8

discursus - conversation speech

Question 9

Term used in Linguistics to refer to a continuous stretch of especially spoken language larger than a sentence. At its most general, a ________ is a behavioral unit which has a pre-theoretical status in linguistics: it is a set of utterances which constitutes any recognizable speech event, conversation, joke, sermon, interview and many more.

Answer 9

discourse

Question 10

a spoken language that is used in a continuous sequence, as in normal conversations

Answer 10

connected speech or connected discourse

Question 11

4 devices for analyzing a written text as connected discourse

Answer 11

1) cohesion
2) cohesive devices
3) coherence
4) parallelism

Question 12

ties and connections which exist which texts that link different parts of sentences or larger unit of discourse

Answer 12

cohesion

Question 13

interpretation of text from some previously expressed identity

Answer 13

anaphoric relation

Question 14

referring forward; identity of what is being expressed and what is to be expressed

Answer 14

cataphoric relation

Question 15

tell the reader what we are doing in a sentence and help to guide them through our writing. They signal to the reader what the relationships are between the different clauses, sentences, and paragraph

Answer 15

cohesive devices

Question 16

language users try to come to an interpretation in the scenario of knowledge of the world they possess. Not something which exists in the language but something which exists in people.

Answer 16

Coherence

Question 17

means side by side; helps to interpret the whole text

Answer 17

parallelism

Question 18

Characteristic of text that can have its own meaning

Answer 18

self-contained

Question 19

Characteristic of text that is bounded by conventions and rules

Answer 19

well-formed

Question 20

way in which words, phrases, sentences, & paragraphs link together to create a text that flows logically in structure & meaning from beginning to end

Answer 20

cohesive

Question 21

when a reader can move easily from one sentence to the next and read the paragraph as an integrated whole rather than a series of separate sentences

Answer 21

coherent

Question 22

search for what gives discourse coherence

Answer 22

discourse analysis