Cohesion and coherence. They are often used interchangeably in everyday staffroom chat So what is the difference? In short: Cohesion is the network of surface-level linguistic links that connect sentences and clauses […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]