PPT-Discourse Analysis of

GuineaBissau Creole Texts David Frank SIL International What to look for in discourse Structure Cohesion including repetition participant reference Also distribution of verb phrase forms and other construction types. brPage 1br Conjugarea verbului discourse Present I discourse You discourse HeSheIt discourses We discourse You discourse They discourse Past I discoursed You discoursed HeSheIt discoursed We John M. Swales. jmswales@umich.edu. The Colonic Title. . THEME .  DEVELOPMENT. . TOPIC  COMMENT. . THEORY  APPLICATION. . AIM  METHOD. . GENERAL  SPECIFIC. SENSE  NONSENSE. An Overview. Reflect on our class so far…. What is the most . important or most useful . thing you’ve learned about who you are as a . reader, as a writer, and as . astudent. ?. What kinds of connections can you make . AND . VOCABULARY. Bring. a . discourse. . dimention. . to. . teach. . vocabulary. Not . abandoning. . vocabulary. . teaching. , . instead. . offering. a . supplement. . to. . conventional. Discourse, genre and discourse type. Definitions of discourse. The literature provides . many different . definitions of “discourse” (see . Jaworski. and . Coupland. 1-37 for an overview). In reality they have more overlap than would appear at first sight.. IT IS ALWAYS BE A BIG QUESTION.. What is discourse?. THE FIRST THING TO KNOW IS . SCHRIFFIN ET AL (2003) NOTE THAT THERE ARE “THREE MAIN CATEGORIES” OF DISCOURSE DEFINITION . ANYTHING BEYOND THE SENTENCE;. Key Definitions. discourse analysis – the study of how features of written/spoken texts illustrate or enact their context and purpose. discourse structure – the way texts are organised into coherent wholes as well as linguistic patterns within texts.. ’. The. . limits. of . my. . world. . are. . the. . limits. . of. . my. . language. ’ (Ludwig . Witgenstein. ). Other senses of ‘discourse’. Descartes: . Discourse. . on. . Method. Topic-orientation. Ling 573 . Systems & Applications. April 19, 2016. TAC 2010 Results. For context:. LEAD baseline: first 100 words of chron. last article. System. ROUGE-2. LEAD baseline. 0.05376. Walter . Humes. University of Stirling. Four Challenges. Political. Philosophical. Pedagogical. Professional. Discourse Analysis. Where has the discourse come from?. Why has it come to prominence now?. Discourse analysis study the ways sentences and utterances. (speech). go together to make texts and interactions and how those texts and interactions fit into our social world.. It should be noticed also that discourse analysis is not just the study of language, but a way of looking at language as well.. John M. Swales. jmswales@umich.edu. Recently, John . Flowerdew. has argued that:. Genre. Task. Discourse community. form a powerful triad of concepts that undergird . EAPcurricula. .. Not much doubt about genre and task. EASY ROUND (x1) What pertains to the time and place of actions in a narrative discourse? 1 | EASY ANSWER| C Plot C. Setting Character D. Action What type of narrative discourse is described continuous stretch of language larger than . a sentence. , often constituting a coherent unit. , such . as sermon, argument, joke or narrative. .”. (. Crystal:1992). “stretches . of language perceived to be meaningful, .