Discourse analysis

Questions:

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   What do you think the speaker mean when they say or anything. Is it appropriate in English using just “yes” when people accept offers 1.2.
   
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   Find example of references
   
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   Explain the using of Tags (tag questions). In which situation they might be used.
   

e.g. Bakewell And The Mars Bar Isn’t It ?
4. explain the meaning the following gorgeous, 1.28, right 1.31, go smashing 1.33, brilliant 1.40, Wow 1.69 ( 1 is a speaker 69- line)
5. In the line 1.65 find the reference? What do they refer to/
6. Find the examples of words which are humorous and sarcastic?
7. Find the example of ellipses and explain their meaning?
8. Comment on the genre of the given conversation? E.g.( narrative, language in action, service encounters)

Lesson 25 .Written discourse (1) TEXT TYPES, THEME –RHYME

Activity 1 Work in groups and find the difference of SPOKEN and WRITTEN language and fill the VENN DIAGRAMM . Draw the diagram on your notebook as it is shown on the blackboard.
Discuss with your whole class and list more similarities and differences about WD and give definition of WD
Complete the sentence written discourse is ….

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  Knowledge of written text has been greatly assisted by the existence of huge computerized corpora of written material such as the twenty-million word Birmingham Collection of English Text (the basis of the Collins COBUILD dictionary project), and corpus- building over the years has led to an interest in detailed taxonomies of textual types. However, we still lack of evidence what kind of written materials people read everyday. We can obtain statistics for library-borrowing, or for newspaper sales, and get some idea of what most people read of these 'mainstream' text types, but a whole hidden world exists too, of memos, forms, notices, telexes, tickets, letters, hoardings, labels, junk mail, etc., and it is very difficult to guess just what people's daily reading and writing is. To prepare appropriate text type of natural English for our classrooms we teachers mostly rely on our intuition or simply we use ready text which is on the textbooks without realizing how much the natives use such a written text.