PSY374H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Microstructure, Cataphora
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Local and global discourse structure customary to use the indefinite article a when readers have not yet been introduced to the object, person, or event and the definite article the when these have already been mentioned the pronoun it is incomprehensible without a preceding context local structure (microstructure) (cid:224) relationship b/w individual sentences in the discourse global structure (macrostructure) (cid:224)our knowledge of the structure corresponding to a particular idea that enables us to comprehend and remember ambiguous details both levels of structure contribute to the coherence of a text, the degree to which different parts (words, sentences, paragraphs) of a text are connected to one another. 1. it is a semantic relation whereby information needed the interpretation of one item is found else where in the text for substitution (cid:224) replace one lexical item with another as an alternative to repeating the first ellipsis (cid:224) special case of substitution.
