Discourse

• Discourse 


  the verbal or written exchange of ideas. any unit of connected speech or writing that longer than a sentence
• cohesion 


  how the text is connected via conjunctions and grammatical and lexical choices
• coherence 


  the meaning that emerges from the text and if it easy to follow
• register 


  the formalitly and how it adapts to be relevant to the audience
• speech acts 


  the actions performed through language like expressing emotions
• genre conventions 


  patterns and structures of different types of texts
• lingustic variation 


  time, place, social class
• power dynamics 


  maintaining power in relationships
• ideolgical and bias 


  impact language and the understanding
• multimodality 


  different modes of communication texts, images, sound
• Discourse of disease


  the English language is becoming infected with statements that sound like questions and idiotic fillers such as like
• Discourse of conflict


  men and women are engaged in trench warfare and they are fighting this battle through their language
• Discourse of morality 


  Bad English should not be allowed in schools. once you accept bad English you begin to accept other forms of bad behaviour
• Discourse of invasion


  for well over 50 years Americanisms like uninvited guests that have been arrowing over shores
• Discourse of decay 


  the beautiful English language falling a part before our very eyes as generation after generation destroy it
• discourse of evolution 


  'languages can cross breed in a way that species do not'

  • shows the flexibility of language in aspects such as lexical borrowing and grammatical change
• discourse of purity 


  English has been polluted by Americanisms