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Discourse Flashcards

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What is ‘Discourse’?

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Refers to the study of a text as a whole, often overlaps with discussions about pragmatics

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What is ‘Multimodality’?

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A text that uses multiple modes

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What is ‘Mode’?

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A way we experience something, like images, text, or sound

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What is ‘Medium’?

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The form of which a text takes, whether that be spoken, written or, electronic

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What are some common ideologies?

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Some common ideologies Include:

  • Language Prescriptivism
  • Language Descriptivism
  • One Language = One Nation
  • Women’s language is deficient, different, etc
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What is ‘Language Prescriptivism’?

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The belief that one variety of a language is more valuable than another

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What is ‘Language Descriptivism’?

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Refers to the study of how language is used, rather than saying how it should be used

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What is ‘One Language = One Nation’?

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The belief that language is an integral part of national identity and one country has one true language

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What is ‘Women’s language is deficient, different, etc’?

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Range of beliefs about women’s language

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What is ‘Ideology’?

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People’s beliefs and judgements about a specific subject conveyed through features, such as evaluative adjectives and modal auxiliaries

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What is ‘Spatio-Temporal’?

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Of Space and time - where and when a text exists

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What is ‘Psychological’?

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An insight of intrusion into the thoughts of fictional characters

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What is ‘Homodiegetic’?

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When a narrator is part of the plot

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What is ‘Hetrodiegetic’?

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When a narrator only delivers the plot

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What are ‘Discourse Markers’?

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A common occurrence in spontaneous speech. They can fulfill a number of different functions, such as hedging, changing the subject, providing feedback for the speaker, etc.

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What is ‘Foregrounding’?

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When something is foregrounded in a text, it’s brought to the reader’s/listener’s attention

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What are the two types of ‘Foregrounding’?

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Foregrounding can be achieved through:

  • Deviation
  • Parallelism
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What is ‘Deviation’?

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When attention is drawn to something through linguistic or presentational devices, we don’t consider to be the “norm”

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What is ‘Parallelism’?

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When attention is drawn to something through linguistic or presentational devices, where symmetry or repetition is used

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What are the different structures?

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Structures Include:

  • Non-Linear
  • Q&A
  • Cyclical
  • Plot/narrative
  • Chronology
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What is a ‘Non-Linear’ structure?

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As series of events described in an order in which they didn’t occur

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What is a ‘Q&A’ structure?

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A series of questions accompanied by answers

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What is a ‘Cyclical’ structure?

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A series of events that ends where it began, either physically or figuratively

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What is a ‘Plot/narrative’ structure?

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The series of events and happenings in a story

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What is a ‘Chronology’ structure?

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A series of events are described in the order in which they occurred

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What are the two aspects of ‘Intertextuality’?

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Three aspects of Intertextuality Include:

  • Manifest Intertextuality
  • Interdiscursivity
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What is meant by ‘Manifest Intertextuality’?

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Alluding to or quoting another specific, separate text

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What is meant by ‘Interdiscursivity’?

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Alluding to or recreating the conventions of a text from a different genre

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How is ‘Deixis in Texts’ used?

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The two types of references used Include:

  • Endophoric
  • Exophoric
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What is an ‘Endophoric reference’?

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Occurs when we refer to something in the same text

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What is an ‘Exophoric reference’?

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Occurs when we refer to something outside of the text

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What is an ‘Anaphoric reference’?

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Occurs when we refer to something established earlier in the text

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What is a ‘Cataphoric reference’?

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Occurs when we refer to something established later in the text

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