Discourse Analysis USSH

The process of eliminating the unique combination of circumstances in which language happens is technically known as (a)  

(a)   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 (a)   the form of another.

(a)   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 (a)   of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence.

(a)   reference directs the receiver 'out of the text and into an assumed shared world

(a)   functions are the main functions of language, serve more overall aim.

Formal links between sentences and between clauses are known as (a)   devices.

1. Languages use grammatical and discourse features in order to indicate which bits of (a)   are given and which are new.

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