Discourse Analysis: Spoken vs. Written
Comparing the structural and linguistic features of spoken and written discourse.
Key Questions
- Differentiate between the typical features of spoken and written language.
- Analyze how turn-taking mechanisms operate in spontaneous conversation.
- Explain how adjacency pairs contribute to coherence in spoken discourse.
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