Written Text as a Connected Discourse

• Linguistics

  • scientific study of human language
• Linguistics

  • concerned with how language is formed (from the sounds and gestures of speech up to the organization of words, sentences, and meaning) and how it works
• Linguistics

  • concerned with the relationship between language and cognition, society, and history
• Language

  • complex structure built up of smaller units connected to each other
• Sentences

  • largest unit in linguistics that show grammatical structure
  • made by combining the correct words based on the rules of grammar
• Discourse

  1. language "above the sentence"
  2. language "in use"
  3. form of social practice in which language plays a central role
• Discourse

  • anything that uses language and larger or structurally "beyond" a sentence
  • focused on how we connect sentences together
  • mainly about how language is used to connect sentences together so that it carries more meaning than a single sentence
• Guide Question in Discourse

  1. Who is using language?
  2. What are the purposes of language for its users in a particular context
• Text

  • made of signs and symbols systematized by grammar and organized in logical language to properly present the intended message
• Text

  • primarily concerned with structuring and conveying complex information
  • usually written
  • can be anything that is documented
• Text

  • written discourse
  • any specific piece of discourse whether written, spoken, or multimodal (nonlinguistic and nonspecific)
• Text

  • physical manifestation of discourse, which is a process of interaction and interpretation of language in a context
• Discourse

  • language part of a social practice
  • how language becomes a bigger unit or structure in a string of sentences when given meaning
  • how language is in use
  • how social realities affect language-use