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Text As A Connected Discourse
Text As A Connected Discourse
Text As A Connected Discourse
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TEXT AS A CONNECTED
DISCOURSE
Objective: Describe written text as connected discourse
What is a text? What is the meaning of discourse?
“textus” - French “discursus” – Latin word for conversation
word for scriptures Discourse is a discussion of a particular
(old form of writing) topic where concepts and insights are
A text is the data in arranged logically.
which ideas are
presented in print
Purpose:
To inform
form.
Ex. Newspaper, textbooks
Examples: To persuade
press reports, street Ex. Essay, Ads, Speech
signs, documents To Entertain
Ex. Comic books, novel
A text is made up of Discourse is made up of
sentences having the utterances having the property
property of grammatical of coherence.
cohesion.
Coherence – the overall
Cohesion – connected meaning.
parts.
The meaning should talk about
The parts of your text the topic.
should talk about the topic.
TEXT AS A CONNECTED DISCOURSE
Q1
What makes text a connected discourse?
Q2
Explain the title
A text is a connected discourse,
which means that all ideas in the
text must be related in the sense
that they would express only one
main idea, or that the text must
have unity by combining all ideas
to emphasize central idea.