Discourse Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
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Discourse markers
A
Words, phrases or clauses that help to organise what we say or write
2
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Adjuncts
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Non-essential elements of clauses (usually adverbials) that can be omitted
3
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Disjunction
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Sentence adverbs that work to express ab attitude or stance towards material that follows e.g. sadly…
4
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Narrative structures
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How events, actions and processes are sequenced when recounting a story
5
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Anaphoric reference
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Making reference back to something previously identified in a text
6
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Cataphoric reference
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Making references forward to something as yet unidentified in the text (e.g. it)
7
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Exophoric reference
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Making defence to things beyond the language of a text itself
8
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Interdiscursivity or intertextuality
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The use of discourses from one field as part of another
