Discourse Analysis USSH

The process of eliminating the unique combination of circumstances in which language happens is technically known as____________________

_________________may be composed of one or more well-formed grammatical sentences and indeed it often is - but it does not have to be.

Parallelism is a device which suggests a connection, simply because the form of one sentence or clause ___________the form of another.

__________________is a device which suggests a connection, simply because the form of one sentence or clause repeats the form of another.

One formal link between sentences is the_____________ of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence.

_______________reference directs the receiver 'out of the text and into an assumed shared world

_______________functions are the main functions of language, serve more overall aim.

Formal links between sentences and between clauses are known as _________________ devices.

1. Languages use grammatical and discourse features in order to indicate which bits of_____________ are given and which are new.

One important source of organization in the turn-taking system is the _________________ pair where the utterance of one speaker makes a particular kind of response very likely.