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    Text refers to written or spoken material such as books, letters, or essays. It is a physical product and stretch of language that is a purposeful whole. Discourse is communication through language that derives meaning from interaction, and can refer to genres, topics, or contexts of language use like political or media discourse. Discourse involves the entire communication act, while text refers specifically to the written or spoken data. The study of discourse considers context, background knowledge, and what is shared between speakers.

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    Text refers to written or spoken material such as books, letters, or essays. It is a physical product and stretch of language that is a purposeful whole. Discourse is communication through language that derives meaning from interaction, and can refer to genres, topics, or contexts of language use like political or media discourse. Discourse involves the entire communication act, while text refers specifically to the written or spoken data. The study of discourse considers context, background knowledge, and what is shared between speakers.

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    Text refers to written or spoken material such as books, letters, or essays. It is a physical product and stretch of language that is a purposeful whole. Discourse is communication through language that derives meaning from interaction, and can refer to genres, topics, or contexts of language use like political or media discourse. Discourse involves the entire communication act, while text refers specifically to the written or spoken data. The study of discourse considers context, background knowledge, and what is shared between speakers.

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    Text refers to written or spoken material such as books, letters, or essays. It is a physical product and stretch of language that is a purposeful whole. Discourse is communication through language that derives meaning from interaction, and can refer to genres, topics, or contexts of language use like political or media discourse. Discourse involves the entire communication act, while text refers specifically to the written or spoken data. The study of discourse considers context, background knowledge, and what is shared between speakers.

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    What is Text? What is Discourse?

    • Came from the Old French word textus • Viewed as a process. Meaning is
    which means “the scriptures” derived through the reader’s
    • Written material, longer pieces of interaction with the text
    writing as in a book, a letter, or a • Discourse has different definitions
    newspaper depending on the context. In a broad
    • Is defined in terms of its being a and general sense, discourse is
    physical product considered to be the use of spoken and
    • Text refers to any object that can be written language in a social context.
    read. • It is any stretch of language larger than
    • In linguistics, it is a stretch of language sentence, whether spoken or written,
    which is perceived as a purposeful and having a logically and unified
    connected whole. structure, e.g. a book, a glossary entry,
    • It can be written of spoken, produced a lecture, or a speech (Collins & Hollo,
    by one person or more. 2000).
    • It is sometimes refers to “discourse”. •
    • Examples of texts can be a poem, this
    lesson, an essay, a play.
    • It is a product of communication or
    piece of language whose shape is
    motivated by its semantic purposes
    and pragmatic roles (Collins & Hollo,
    2000).
    CONNECTED DISCOURSE
    • Flows smoothly and easily from one sentence and paragraph to another, clarifying the
    relationships among ideas and allowing the reader to grasp connections
    • It is a continuous sequence of sounds forming utterances or conversation in spoken
    language.
    • In Conversation, utterances may be in form of words, phrases, sentences and
    paragraphs.
    • Written discourse involves one individual who expresses ideas and feelings through
    written words.
    • Text with distinct features and purpose
    • These refer to text with distinct features and purpose in which ideas are
    coherently arranged.
    • Formal and often lengthy discussion of a topic where concepts and insights are
    arranged in an organized and logical manner
    • "Discourse can also be used to refer to particular contexts of language use, and in this
    sense it becomes similar to concepts like genre or text type. For example, we can
    conceptualize political discourse (the sort of language used in political contexts) or
    media discourse (language used in the media). In addition, some writers have conceived
    of discourse as related to particular topics, such as an environmental discourse or
    colonial discourse (which may occur in many different genres). Such labels sometimes
    suggest a particular attitude towards a topic (e.g. people engaging in environmental
    discourse would generally be expected to be concerned with protecting the
    environment rather than wasting resources. Related to this, Foucault (1972: 49) defines
    discourse more ideologically as 'practices which systematically form the objects of which
    they speak.'"

    "'Discourse' is sometimes used in contrast with 'text,' where 'text' refers to actual
    written or spoken data, and 'discourse' refers to the whole act of communication
    involving production and comprehension, not necessarily entirely verbal. The study of
    discourse, then, can involve matters like context, background information or knowledge
    shared between a speaker and hearer."

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