Evidence 2, chapter 7

What is written discourse? 

• Is the unstructured discourse that has complete sentences. 

• Is the structure discourse that does not follow any syntactic rules. 

• It is the structured and planned discourse that follows syntactic rules and includes complete sentences. 

• Is the unstructured discourse that follows syntactic rules. 

The characteristics of the written discourse are... 

• Dense content, information and ideas. 

• Convey a message without unnecessary repetitions. 

• Appropriate style depending on the genre. 

• All of the options above. 

Where can't written discourse be used? 

• Personal conversations 

• Technical report 

• Formal essay 

• Specialized article 

What do we refer to in spoken discourses rather than sentences? 

 

• Dialogues 

• Utterances 

• Monologues 

• Incomplete Sentences 

Which are some examples of contractions

• We’re, It’s, They’re. 

• Where, Was, There. 

• Would, We’re, Will. 

• Want to, Go to, Like to. 

Are the ones responsible of formulating the message they want to convey: 

• Writers 

• Audience

• Listeners 

• Speakers 

What are the utterances? 

• Can be sounds like erm, aha or chunks expressions such as No Way. 

• Mistakes that are made in the written discourse  

• Speaking in an informal way  

• When writing doesn’t have concordance  

This is NOT an example of pauses and fillers:

• “I mean”  

• “Er” 

• “No way” 

• "Uh"

What is redundancy?  

• Are words that are used to fill information  

• Is the way people use verbs  

• Is the way that some people interoperate information 

• When words or ideas are repeated without adding meaning or information 

This is NOT an example of colloquial and general language  

• “This thing” 

• “This stuff” 

• “We regret to”  

• “Yeah"