Discourse Analysis

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_______ is defined as lan­guage in its contexts of use. In considering language in its contexts of use, the concern is also with language above the level of the sentence.

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Discourse

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_______ can be defined as the study of language in its contexts of use and above the level of the sentence.

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Discourse Analysis

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The idea "One text cannot be understood except in relation to other texts which have gone before (and, indeed, which are likely to follow)" shows that discourse is _______

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intertextual

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A set of linguistic choices associated with a particular situation, often related to professional activity or interests.

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register

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Theme is the point of departure of a clause, what the clause is about, while _______ refers to the pattern of themes across a stretch of text.

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thematic development

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_______ is a statistical meas­ure of the relative frequency of lexical words and grammatical words in a stretch of text.

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Lexical density

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With _______, we are concerned with the formal (but at the same time semantic) links between clauses, how an item - a pronoun, a noun or a conjunction - in one clause may refer backwards or forwards to another clause.

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cohesion

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A _______ item is a word or phrase, the identity of which can be determined by referring to other parts of the text or the situation.

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reference

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With _______, a substitute word or phrase is replaced by another, for example, Which book do you want? I'll take the red one. In this example the word book is substituted by one.

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substitution

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Where _______ occurs, something is left unsaid, it is true, but, at the same time, it is nevertheless understood.

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