Discourse Analysis Class_______Name______ Define the following terms(30%) discourse a stretch of language consisting of several sentences which are perceived a being related in some way. (David Nuan :5) context Context refers to the situation giving rise to the discourse, and within which the discourse is embedded.
They are text-forming are words and phrases which enable the writer or speaker to establish relationships across sentences or utterances boundaries,and which help to tie the sentence in a text together. the pr4ehensive description and analysis of these devices is to be found in Halliday and Hasan(1976).They found five different types of cohesion:reference,substitutuin,ellipsis,conjunction and lexical cohesion Theme The initial element in a sentence or utterance which forms the point of departure. turn-taking A turn is everything the current speaker says before the next speaker takes over. Turn-taking mechanisms, the way in which speakers hold or pass the floor(抓住发言权让出发言权),vary between cultures and between languages pairs In conversation, pairs of utterances monly co-occur –such as questioin-reply,introduction—greeting.
The extent to which discourse is perceived to’hang together’ rather than being a set of unrelated sentences or utterances. reference A form of cohesion in which the
