Q1A SESSION

Apuntes

Q&A SESSION M a x i m i l i a n o R e y e s O s o r i o TEXT, DISCOURSE, AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TEXT Meaningful units used in a language event. Only oral or only written? The study of language in use. Is it Pragmatics? A text with the context. What does context mean? How wide is context? DISCOURSE ANALYSIS DISCOURSE TEXT COHESION Reference personal (subjects, objects, possesives) demonstrative (this, that, those, among others) comparative Substitution nominal substitutes verbal substitutes (do mainly) clausal substitutes (so, not) Ellipsis (replacement of one thing) nominal ellipsis verbal ellipsis clausal ellipsis Conjunctions (then, so, but, and). Lexical cohesion Links/connections inside a text. Types of reference: endophoric exophoric anaphoric cataphoric Any linguistic unit that is coherent. COHESION CATEGORIES What the use of a word signifies in a specific text. Its specific meaning in a given context. MEANING Meaning Sense What we might understand of a word in any text. Each interpretation of a word. Consider the words “raja” and “hoyo”, both usually refer to a part of the body (meaning). However, when they are used in specific scenarios, their meaning change (sense). “...