Discourse is a set of utterances that make up a conversation or speech. It exists within a context and uses pragmatic cues, unlike a text which is a recorded discourse removed from its original context. Discourse controls and organizes a text before and during the writing process, showing that texts and discourses rely on each other. Linguistic forms can have transactional functions to communicate information or interactional functions to build social relationships. Written texts are structured products that authentically preserve the author's expression, while spoken texts exist as a process where paralinguistic cues are lost upon orthographic transcription.