PPT-Professional and Academic Discourse Module

Genres of written academic discourse What sort of written academic discourse Professional academic genres eg research articles conference abstracts Student disciplinary genres eg undergraduate or postgraduate writing in university disciplines. John M. Swales. jmswales@umich.edu. The Colonic Title. . THEME .  DEVELOPMENT. . TOPIC  COMMENT. . THEORY  APPLICATION. . AIM  METHOD. . GENERAL  SPECIFIC. SENSE  NONSENSE. A very brief introduction to. DISCURSIVE METHODS. Conversation Analysis. Discourse Analysis. Critical Discourse Analysis. Why Language?. The ‘discursive turn’ driven by social constructionism. Discourse as a fundamental, centrally constituting, feature of the social world.. 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.. “CDA [is]fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control when these are manifested in language. In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, and legitimized by language use.” (. Wei . Guo. Overview. Background. Discourse Parser. Discourse Analysis. Existing Visualization Methods. DAViewer. Interface. Methodology. Use case scenarios. Background. discourse . parser:. a natural language processing system which can represent the organization of a document . professional identity . and values of journalism students, practicing journalists . and . industry. . Presentation by. Sally Reardon. University of the . West of England. Sally2.reardon@uwe.ac.uk. LearningForAll2017. and . M.Spyridakis. , . Spetses. , June 2017 . Discourse . is no longer or solely either the study of linguistic forms or the study of language use.. Discourse . is . rather viewed . as a social . practice referring either to spoken or to written contexts.. The language associated with a particular . content. area. Needed to develop an . understand. the concepts and . communicate. that understanding. Can be . oral. and . written. Academic Language. Consists of:. 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 Course Tutor: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Q. Abed. Content. . Introduction. 6.1 Grammar from Discourse Perspective. 6.2 The texture of a text. 6.3 Cohesion and Discourse. 6.4 Reference. 6.5 Lexical Cohesion . 6.6 Collocation.