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Evi Sofiawati

Describing the English Language

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Page 1: Describing the English Language

Evi Sofiawati

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Discourse Organisation

Genre

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Discourse Organisation

Written

Spoken

Coherence

Cohesion

Ellipsis

Organizing events

Cooperation

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Discourse Organisation

Written

Coherence

Be in the right order/make sense

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As it ends, we go back home and ask for forgiveness from

each other at our living room. We leave for the prayer

ground to perform Salaat-al-Eid in congregation early in

the morning after having some light breakfast. Then,

everybody will enjoy the feast that mother has prepared

days before. Some neighbors usually drop by and join the

feast.

We leave for the prayer ground to perform Salaat-al-Eid

in congregation early in the morning after having some

light breakfast. As it ends, we go back home and ask for

forgiveness from each other at our living room. Then,

everybody will enjoy the feast that mother has prepared

days before. Some neighbors usually drop by and join the

feast.

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Discourse Organisation

Written

Cohesion lexical cohesion grammatical cohesion:

anaphoric referencesubstitutiontense agreementlinkers

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Discourse Organisation

Written

Spoken

Coherence

CohesionOrganizing events

Cooperation

Ellipsis

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Discourse Organisation

Spoken

EllipsisYour

order?Double cheese, please.

Dine in?

To go.

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Discourse Organisation

Spoken

Organizing eventsdiscourse markers

anyway, moving on, etc.right?, OK?, etc.

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Discourse Organisation

Spoken

Cooperation informative & relevant contribution no ambiguity

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Discourse Organisation

Genre

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Genre

Discourse community

Customs & Norms

advertisements emails oral presentations reading materials etc.

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Syntax

Morphology

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Syntax

A system of rules of what comes before what and which order different elements go in

e.g. We have to perform well.

vs

We well have to perform

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Morphology

Word changes expressing different meaning

e.g. present vs presents

go vs went