Discourse

Question 1

Discourse

Answer 1

The use of language in speech and writing in order to produce meaning

Question 2

Which are considered discourse?

Answer 2

2 seperated sentences with connections

Question 3

Coherence

Answer 3

underlying connectedness

Question 4

Cohesion

Answer 4

indicates the explicit signs that in turn shows coherence

Question 5

Turn talking

Answer 5

consists of adjacency pair

Question 6

Adjacency Pair

Answer 6

Consists of First Part, Second part and Type

Question 7

Discourse marker

Answer 7

the “,”

Question 8

repair

Answer 8

correcting mistakes

Question 9

repetition

Answer 9

repeating words

Question 10

hedges

Answer 10

expressing uncertainity ex. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but…”

Question 11

Address terms

Answer 11

Sir, Mister, M’am etc.

Question 12

Ellipses

Answer 12

completely omitting obvious sections of a sentence

Question 13

Nominal ellipsis

Answer 13

Omit noun ex. How many plants should we get? What about ten? (Ten = plant)

Question 14

Verbal ellipsis

Answer 14

Omit verb ex. I’ll teach you homework. Oh no, you can’t (teach my homework)

Question 15

Causal ellipsis

Answer 15

Omit clause ex. What are you doing? Laundry (I’m doing laundry)