Reading and Writing

Frontliners: RWS Lesson 1

 Text as Connected Discourse
• Learning Objectives:
• Define and discuss
-Linguistics
-Discourse
-Language
-Text
• Describe written text as connected discourse
 Linguistics is “the scientific study of human
language”.
• It is concerned with how • Linguistics is also
language is formed-”from concerned with “the
the sounds and gestures relationship between
of speech up to the language and cognition,
organization of words, society, and history”.
sentences, and meaning”-
and how it works.
Linguistics: Language Structure