Textual contrastive analysis

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2221ENGL1415 Contrastive Linguistics (Eng-Vie) – Ms Hoa Ninh 
WEEK 9 
TEXTUAL CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS 
➢ The big picture 1: In the introduction to Chapter 6 (before section 6.1), why does the author begin by explaining 
the idealization of data or decontextualization? What are the three basic characteristics of macrolinguistics? 
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I. Text and Discourse 
1. ‘Discourse’ can be broadly defined in three different ways: ‘(1) anything beyond the sentence, (2) language 
use, and (3) a broader range of social practice that includes non-linguistic and non-specific instances of 
language.’ (Schiffrin et al. 2015, p. 1). Which of these three definitions are mentioned in Chapter 6? 
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2. What is the author’s view on the differences between text analysis and discourse analysis?
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