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2. Discourse analysis - Wikipedia

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   Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event. [ citation needed ] The objects of discourse analysis ( discourse , writing, conversation, communicative event ) are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of sentences ...

3. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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   Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [2] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration, or telling; description, or picturing; exposition, or explaining; and argument, or ...

4. Immediate constituent analysis - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) is a syntactic theory which focuses on the hierarchical structure of sentences by isolating and identifying the constituents. While the idea of breaking down sentences into smaller components can be traced back to early psychological and linguistic theories, ICA as a formal method was ...

5. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   An example of lexical prosody would be "CONvert" versus "conVERT". Phrasal prosody: aprosodia affecting certain stressed words. Deficits in the left hemisphere affect this linguistic rule. An example of phrasal prosody would be a "Hot DOG", a dog that’s hot, versus a "HOT dog", a frankfurter.

6. APA style - Wikipedia

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   APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

7. Appraisal (discourse analysis) - Wikipedia

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   Each of these has various sub-systems; for example, 'attitude' includes 'affect' (expression of emotion), 'appreciation' (evaluation of things/entities), and 'judgement' (evaluation of people and their behaviour), with different choices within these sub-systems. [1]

8. Ethnography of communication - Wikipedia

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   A - act sequence: what speech acts make up the speech event, and what order they are performed in K - key : the tone or manner of performance (serious or joking, sincere or ironic, etc.) I - instrumentalities : what channel or medium of communication is used (e.g. speaking, signing, writing, drumming, whistling), and what language/variety is ...

9. Corpus linguistics - Wikipedia

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   Corpus linguistics is an empirical method for the study of language by way of a text corpus (plural corpora). [1] Corpora are balanced, often stratified collections of authentic, "real world", text of speech or writing that aim to represent a given linguistic variety. [1]