R is for Relevance
This must have happened to you, too. You are in a desperate hurry to get on with something and your friend, sister, husband or boss, start rabbiting on about completely unconnected […]
C is for Coherence
Is she coherent? Watch this much discussed video of a young beauty pageant contestant answering a question posed by the judges. Thinking Task 1 Is Miss South Carolina coherent or not? Thinking Task 2 Read this text and say if it is coherent. Try to answer the […]
G is for Genre
Definition Genre ( /ˈʒɑːnrə/ or /ˈdʒɑːnrə/; from French, genre French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ʁ], “kind” or “sort”, from Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, […]
N is for New Information
This is the first of a series of posts intended to introduce some basic concepts of Discourse Analysis and to illustrate them in a fun, if possible, way Definition & […]
P is for Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective
Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA, express great interest in this way […]
A is for Advance Organisers
Reading and listening are highly complex activities and, yet, in the foreign language classroom, they are often approached as if texts are just collections of words and grammatical patterns which […]