Discourse analysis and vocabulary

Lexis in talk and textual aspects of lexical competence
1. Lexis
  1. Is part of the vocabulary that we have. It is used in written and spoken language
    1. Reiterate own words
    2. Take up another’s vocabulary
    3. Develop and expand topics.
    4. This process is called relexicalization
2. Vocabulary patterns
  1. The learners need to have a fairly rich vocabulary, and to know synonyms, antonyms, etc. of the words that are “in play”
3. Lexical relations
  1. Rearranges conventional and established words and we have to change our usual conceptualisation of how words relate to each other.
Lexical Cohesion
1. The way related words are chosen to link elements of a text
  1. Collocation
    1. Only refers to the probability that lexical items will co-occur and is not a semantic relation between words.
  2. Reiteration
    1. Restating and item in a later part of the discourse by direct repetition
Vocabulary and the organising of text
1. Open system
  1. Belong to the major word classes of noun, verb, adjective, and verb,
2. Closed system
  1. The words which carry a grammatical meaning (this, that, these, those)
    1. Demostrative
3. Structure of an argument
  1. Issue
    1. Main problem of the text
  2. Assessment
    1. A part that is something being judge
  3. Solution
    1. Possible solution
Signalling Larger Textual Patterns
1. Signalling
  1. To show that something is happening or will happen (kind of prediction). And it functions to increase our awareness in realising the pattern (able to recognize the kind of texy).
    1. Problem-solution pattern
      1. to show how organising words have been used to “wrap round” along problem-solution text.
    2. Claim-counterclaim pattern (hypothetical pattern):
      1. Refers to the structure of an argument where there is more than one side to debate.
    3. Doubt or uncertainty Pattern
      1. Want to indicate doubts of uncertainty.
  2. Exploited as
    1. Top-down phenomenom (uses background to predict)
    2. bottom-up phenomenom (all the way around)
Register and Signalling vocabulary
1. Register
  1. The way the speaker uses language differently in different circumstances. (word you choose, tone, body language).
    1. Formal
    2. Informal
2. Signalling
  1. Organise and struct.
3. Idioms
  1. Idiomatic phrases are used as signal of the response
Modality
1. Not only modal verbs can show modality, as well nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs.
  1. Classic
    1. Concerned with degrees of certainty and possibility
  2. The root modalities
    1. volition, permission, obligation
  3. The verbs and adverbs are more frequent than nouns and adjective.

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