Luận văn An investigation into representatives in engllish lecture discourse

Tóm tắt Luận văn An investigation into representatives in engllish lecture discourse: ...ight be seen as characterized by typical spoken syntactic features rather than by written features [Tannen, 1982, Halliday, 1985, p.89]. There are several mechanisms in spoken discourses which facilitate learners’ comprehension; the use of linguistic repetition, as an example, plays an impor... reveal different types of speech acts + Setting up the corpora of samples of representatives picked out from extracts of lectures by using the table of felicity conditions on different types of speech acts (drawn from Searle’s speech act theory [1969]) 3.1 below to identify representative...tructure Imperative clause Complement clause E.g. Find out how it gathers information, then work against it…. Communicated message It is presupposed that it gathers information Cognitive status of P P is required to be treated as an uncovered fact The table 4.8 was used to illustrate t...