Discourse- Linguistics

Discourse is……

putting it all together!

Discourse

how language flows

unit of language usually longer then 1 sentence

discourse analysis

how do we make sense of the texts that we read?

what makes us think one thing is coherent vs incoherent

cohesion

lexical word and grammatical structure linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning

cohesive ties

the actual devices that help discourse flow

deixis/anaphora/cataphora

D- tomorow

A the show, it

C- Annie, she (PRO)

transitions

however, therefore, in addition, but

substitutions

pen? purple one. other ones.

repetition of words and phrases

i went to the beach. the beach is so calming

coherence

what makes discourse meaningful (how we make sense of it and how ideas relate to each other)

turn-taking

only one person speaks at a time and turns are pretty much continuous

completion points

the signals or ways that a speaker indicates that she has finished (pausing at the end of a sentence, asking a question)

cooperative principle

those involved in communication assume that both parities will normal seek to cooperate with each other to establish agreed meaning

grice’s maxims

quantity

quality

relevance

manner

quantity

make your contribution as informative as required. no more no less

quality

do not say that which you believe to be false or for which you lack evidence; be truthful

relevance

be relevant

manner

be clear, brief and orderly— avoid ambiguity

violating— grices maxims

lying, rambling, changing subject

flouting

purposefully breaking the maxims in order to create additional meaning

implicature

a proposition that is implied by an utterance but is not part of the utterance and does not follow as a necessary consequence of the utterance

entailment

when A is true then B is too