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43. Text and discourse (approaches to distinguishing)

  • Latin ‘textus’ derived fromtexo’ ‘to weave, to build’

  • Used figuratively to mean ‘style, syllable, connection, coherent statement’

  • Text is predominantly orderly, formally regulated

  • Is static, the reader follows the author’s flow of thought without the possibility to intrude

  • Text is stated in a written form

  • Discursus – derived from discurro ‘to run in different directions, to spread about, to fall apart’

  • Used figuratively to mean ‘to tell’

  • Discourse – is speech, with concrete visible, detectable, understandable people, participating in dialogue

  • Is predominantly oral (is followed by notions like ‘speaker’, ‘hearer’, ‘to tell’, ‘conversation’).

  • Can be written as well – newspaper discussion, news in mass media

  • Is predominantly spontaneous; like speech discourse is dynamic. Utterance provokes a chain of questions, answers, comments.

44.Seven principles of textuality (r de Beaugrande)

1. COHESION - the connections among linguistic forms like words or word-endings

2. COHERENCE - those among the ‘meanings’ or ‘concepts’

3. INTENTIONALITY - covers what speakers intend

4. ACCEPTABILITY - what hearers engage to do;

5. INFORMATIVITY concerns how new or unexpected the content is;

6. SITUATIONALITY concerns ongoing circumstances of the

interaction;

7. INTERTEXTUALITY covers relations with other texts, particularly ones from the same or a similar ‘text type’.

45. Grammatical cohesion of the text (m.A.K. Halliday, r.Hasan). Types of cohesive devices.

. Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence; i.e. the links that hold a text together and give it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence.

  • Two main types of cohesion: grammatical, referring to the structural content, and lexical, referring to the language content of the piece.

  • M.A.K. Halliday & Ruqaiya Hasan five categories of cohesive devices creating coherence:

1) reference, 2) ellipsis,

3) substitution, 4) lexical cohesion and 5) conjunction.

    1. Referential devices that create cohesion (M.A.K. Halliday, R. Hasan)

  • Anaphoric reference occurs when the writer refers back to someone or something that has been previously identified, to avoid repetition.

  • Cataphoric is a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse. Something is introduced in the abstract before it is identified.

    2) Ellipsis

    • happens when, after a more specific mention, words are omitted when the phrase needs to be repeated.

    • A conversational example:

    (A) What are you doing tonight?

    (B) Nothing special (i.e. I am doing nothing special tonight)

    3) Substitution

    • A word is not omitted, as in ellipsis, but is substituted for another, more general word.

    • E.g. "Which dress would you put on?" – "I would put on the red one" where "one" is used instead of repeating “dress" This works in a similar way to pronouns, which replace the noun.

    The three types of substitution

    • Nominal : one, ones, same

    E.g: I’ll take this one.

    • Verbal : do

    E.g: He writes poems, he really does

    • Clausal : so, not

    Eg: It’s going to rain. I think so.

    4) Lexical cohesion is a linguistic device which helps to create unity of text and discourse.

    In contrast to grammatical cohesion, lexical cohesion “[…] is the cohesive effect achieved by the selection of vocabulary.” (Halliday 1994). Thus, a speaker or writer’s either conscious or unconscious selection of certain lexical items that are in some way connected to each other creates lexical cohesion.

    Lexical cohesion includes:

    1) repetition,

    2) synonymy a) antonymy, b) hyponymy

    3) collocation

    Grammatical cohesion

    • The logical and structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics.

    NB! Grammatical and lexical cohesion overlap

    The conjunction is the border line between the two types

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