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THE LANGUAGE OF DISCOURSE

Moira Chimombo, Robert L. Roseberry

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Genre is a description of the structure of a text and results from the \nculture and situation of the discourse participants. Topics are closely \nassociated with genres, and only certain topics are likely to appear \nin certain genres. Topic and genre together select the language of a \ntext. Certain kinds of words and grammatical forms are likely to \nappear with certain genres. For example, discourse markers such as \n"well" and "umhmm," and tag questions (" ... isn&s;t it?," "doesn&s;t she," \nand so on) are much more likely to occur in conversational genres \nthan in written academic genres.

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Genre is a description of the structure of a text and results from the \nculture and situation of the discourse participants. Topics are closely \nassociated with genres, and only certain topics are likely to appear \nin certain genres. Topic and genre together select the language of a \ntext. Certain kinds of words and grammatical forms are likely to \nappear with certain genres. For example, discourse markers such as \n"well" and "umhmm," and tag questions (" ... isn&s;t it?," "doesn&s;t she," \nand so on) are much more likely to occur in conversational genres \nthan in written academic genres.

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Genre is a description of the structure of a text and results from the \nculture and situation of the discourse participants. Topics are closely \nassociated with genres, and only certain topics are likely to appear \nin certain genres. Topic and genre together select the language of a \ntext. Certain kinds of words and grammatical forms are likely to \nappear with certain genres. For example, discourse markers such as \n"well" and "umhmm," and tag questions (" ... isn&s;t it?," "doesn&s;t she," \nand so on) are much more likely to occur in conversational genres \nthan in written academic genres.

Key concepts: Linguistics, Sociology, Computer science, Philosophy

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