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Sunday, 27 September 2015



GROUP 6
DISCOURSE-BASED APPROACHES




DISCOURSE-BASED APPROACHES


It is framework that built to help language learner became competence of the language based on requirement that needed the language to be obtain. 
The main function is to give an efficient way to learn the language which contribute in understand the meaning of language and giving a real life communication situation.


IDENTIFYING GENRE

Communicative purpose
Essential part of identifying genre which falls into certain categories which fulfil the purpose of learning the language.
Communicative purpose became more complex when the fields came with multiple situation.



ANALYSING REGISTER

Register also known “form of language customarily used in particular circumstances” (oxford dictionary) 
Analysis that required you to giving crucial on details on tone, level of language and any specialized language which is important that contribute information about register.



TYPES OF LEXIS 

  1. Semantics- meanings
  1. Metaphor-
          comparison (is)
  1. Personification-
                giving an object human qualities/attributes
  1. Pragmatics-
          implied meaning
  1. Simile-
               comparison (as, like)
  1. Context-
             time and place surrounding a text
  1. Denotation-literal meaning
  1. Mentonym-
                    where the attribute of a subject stands for something else
  1. Irony- 
            saying or writing the opposite of what is actually meant
  1. Connotation-
          words/meanings
  1. Pathetic Fallacy-
               where the weather reflects the mood
  1. Bathos-
    comedy derived from the serious then turned into the ridiculous i.e Scary Movie
  1. Figurative Language-
              language that uses a metaphor
  1. Imagery-
                   creating pictures in the reader's mind
  1. Archaic-           language features that are no longer in use
  1. Synonym-
                 words that mean the same thing (Start-Go)
  1. Determiner-
             indicate quality or identify the noun 
        (one, two, three etc)
  1. Text-
          anything you can read
  1. Antonym-
                  opposite words (Start-Finish)
  1. Metalinguistics-
         words we use to describe words
     i.e nouns
  1. Synchronic Variation-
               change in language at one time-different 
           uses by different people
  1. Intensifier-
            particular type of adverb
  1. Creole-
            a new hybrid language
  1. Diachronic Variation-
            change in language over time
        (Gay Gay Gay)
  1. Exothoric Reference- 
    these are references to the wider situation or context to things outside the text.
  1. Diadactic-form in which you speak
  1. Genre-
    type/category of a text
    Travelogue for set texts
  1. Satire-
    a text, which illustrates something ludicrous by use of exaggeration.
    This is normally over something political. 
    i.e A Modest Proposal expressing the unfairness of the English ruling the Irish, disease spread and a increased amount of people died resulting in rumours of cannibalism.
  1. Conventions- features in the text
    i.e film noir = femme fatale
  1. Parenthesis-
    a pair of signs to mark off a bit of a sentence, separating it from the syntactic structure but not affecting the sentence as a whole. 
    Ex. William Smith-        you must know him- is coming tonight.
  1. Parody-
    a usually humorous imitation of a text or a situation for comic effect or to ridicule it
  1. Intertexual Reference-
    when a text makes an implied explicit reference to another text
  1. Pentameters-
    a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet
  1. Ideology-
    a set of beliefs, ideas etc 

  1. Juxtaposition-
    an act or instance of placing close together or side by side esp. for comparison or contrast
  1. Enjambement-
    the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no        pause
  1. Cataphoric Reference-
    when the text refers to something forward
  1. Emotive language-
    language that is        intended to produce an emotional response i.e heartwarming
  1. Oxymoron-
    contradicting words or phrases brought together
  1. Anaphoric Reference-
    when a word or phrase refers to something earlier in the text-often uses pronouns
  1. Pun- 
humorous play on words that depends on a word or phrase having a double meaning
  1. Dramatic Irony-
    when something is        said and has a deeper meaning or significance
  1. Taboo language-
 words that are avoided because they are considered offensive, embarrassing, obscene or unpleasant
  1. Repetition-occurs when a word or phrase is repeated
  1. Form-way in which the text is structured

  1. Typology-
    classification according to a general type
  1. Paradox-
    an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion
  1. Hyperbole-
    an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”


References
Webites: 
http://applij.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2/195.short

http://www.slideshare.net/husainabdulhay/discourse-based-approaches-to-langauge-learning-and-teaching

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/bpl_images/content_store/sample_chapter/9780631224181/scollon.pdf


https://books.google.com.my/books?id=uB-QtADevzMC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=analysing+register&source=bl&ots=NrXaVqbgtO&sig=Ja0mT0IAZWxC5S4kwTl0XM3qRMM&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=analysing%20register&f=false

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