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1. Lengua y Expresión Escrita IV
I.S.F.D. Nº 41
Profesorado de Inglés.
Oral presentation- Group 8.
Students:
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Pair 1: Vazquez, Victoria and Peralta Noelia
Pair 2: Elicegui Mercedes and Sanguinetti Agostina
Pair 3: Franco Florencia and Germinario Ana Laura
Pair 4: Eisenacht Vilma and Petralanda MaiteThe Study of
Language
By George Yule

2. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - UNIT 11
Study of language in
texts and
conversations
Knowledge about form and
structure?
Cohesion
Table of
Contents
Coherence
Turn-taking
Implicatures
Discourse Discourse Analysis
Language beyond the sentence
MeaningInterpretation
And more
Conversation Analysis
Speech events
The cooperative
principle
Hedges
Background
knowledge
Schemas & scripts

3. Cohesion: ties and connections within texts
The father
He his
Me MY
I
● Chronologic
al order
● Spatial
order
● Explanatory
order
It’s people who
makes sense of
what they read
and hear
Interpretation of texts by
making meaningful connections
not expressed by words
Filling the gaps a great
deal of
what is
meant is not
actually said
Coherence:
Everything
fitting together
WELL

4. Speech events
There are enormous
variations in what
people say and do in
different situations.
Conversations
Debates
Interviews
Conversation Analysis:
Conversation as an activity
in which two or more people
take turns to speak
Discussions
Typically only one person
speaks at a time.
Participants wait until
the speaker indicates he/she
has finished. Completion point:
● Asking
questions.
● Pausing at
the end of a
phrase
Other
participants
may make
noises or use
body language
and gestures

5. Speech events
Turn taking:
Strategies for participation
● Rudeness
● Shyness
Long-minded speakers
Hold the floor by
avoiding completion points:
● Don’t make pauses
● Make them anywhere
● Use time-fillers
The Cooperative principle: participants cooperates with
each other
* The Quantity maxim: make your contributions as is . .
. required, not more or less than it.
* The Quality maxim: do not say anything you believe to be
false or for you don’t have proper
evidence.
* The Relation maxim: be relevant.
* The Manner maxim: be clear, brief and olderly.

6. Hedges:
words or
phrases used to
indicate we are
not really sure
of what we are
saying is correct
or not
Sort of, kind
of
As far as I
know,
Correct me if
I’m wrong..
Possibly, likely, may,
could….
Implicatures:
Additional conveyed
meaning we can
work out meaning
from the relevant
information given

7. Inferences:
Likely or possible
interpretations
that readers will
quickly abandon if
they don’t fit with
subsequent
information
Script: dynamic
schema
Actions that usually
takes place:
Eating in a restaurant
Going to a restaurant
Playing
Learning
Schema=
Schemata:
Conventional
knowledge that
exists in memory
Classroom
Bank
Café

8. A conclusion:

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Bibliography
Agostina
Thanks
for
watching
Ana Laura
Maite
Mercedes
Noelia
Yule, G. (2010). The Study of Language. New York,
USA. Cambridge University Press
Victoria
Vilma