topic 29

Discourse analysis is a branch of...

Discourse analysis attempts to find ____ in communicative products and their _____ with circumstances where they occur

(SEPARAR PALABRAS CON UNA COMA)

Discourse analysis deals with

• language

• classroom language

• speech acts

• semantics

Links in discourse studies are divided into...

• informal

• formal

• contextual

• specific

Prior knowledge of typical situations that enable people to understand the underlying meanings of words in a text

• semantic unit

• speech acts

• schemata

• deixis

• anaphora

Unit of language in use that applies to any passage (spoken or written) that forms a unified whole, a semantic unit.

• schemata

• speech act

• text

• deixis

This type of LINK in discourse studies has to do with the facts that are present in the analysed text

• Formal

• Contextual

This type of LINK in discourse studies refers to the outside world, the knowledge (or schemata) that is not included in the communicative product itself

• formal

• contextual

Way syntactic elements are linked within a sentence. It needs to adapt to every text.

• cohesion

• coherence

• Acceptability

• Intertextuality

• Informativity

It is present in the text because there is a continuity of senses that holds the text together. It has to be semantically and logically correct

• cohesion

• coherence

• acceptability

• informativity

• intertextuality