LING 3P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Real Analysis

• School: Brock University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 3P95
• Professor: Cheng Luo

Document Summary

4. 1 discourse structure lesson/interaction > transaction > exchange > move > act. -extension of grammatical analysis to da: linguistic approach; -discourse level mediates b/t non-linguistic & grammatical levels; -the structure of a higher rank is expressed in terms of rank units next below: cf. Lesson/interaction: like a paragraph in grammar, no rigid structure of a lesson is predictable. Transaction: (real analysis starts here); corresponds to topic, starting with a new topic and ends with a shift to another topic. Structured in terms of transaction boundaries marked by words: ok, well, right, now, good etc. Expressed by an ordered set of exchanges (1) exchange boundary > (informing*) > (directing*) > (eliciting*) > exchange boundary (moves: frame; focus) * = means can be repeated, more than one. Brackets mean optional (2) well, (frame move) boundary exchange what we are going to do today is (focus move=more specific ) boundary exchange. Identify moves that mark transaction boundaries in (3);