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Written Text As Connected Discourse

Written text, like spoken language, can be viewed as "connected discourse" where sentences are linked together to form a unified whole known as a "text". While a text is composed of sentences, principles of text construction go beyond grammatical rules for individual sentences. Both written and spoken language exhibit connectedness through strategies that link and order linguistic items into greater blocks to convey ideas. Texts come in many genres and can be spoken or written forms of communication.

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Written Text As Connected Discourse

Written text, like spoken language, can be viewed as "connected discourse" where sentences are linked together to form a unified whole known as a "text". While a text is composed of sentences, principles of text construction go beyond grammatical rules for individual sentences. Both written and spoken language exhibit connectedness through strategies that link and order linguistic items into greater blocks to convey ideas. Texts come in many genres and can be spoken or written forms of communication.

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Written Text as

Connected Discourse
The focus is given to studying how
sentences are used in connected
stretches of language, termed as “texts”
According to Fowler (1991) maintained that a
text is made up of sentences, but there exist
separate principles of text- construction that is
beyond the rules for making sentences. As an
extended structure of syntactic units, texts are
any passage- spoken or written, of whatever
length, that does form a unified whole.
Connected speech, also known as “connected discourse” is spoken language
that is used in continuous sequence of sounds, just like in normal conversations.
As observed, there is often a significant difference between the way words are
pronounced in isolation and the way they are pronounced in the context of
connected speech.
In most aspects, written text shares the same nature as that of spoken language.
As connected discourse, written text is formed from spontaneous discreteness
that predetermined its connectedness. The engendered text serves as dominant
strategy of a writer from the point of linguistic structure to the forming of
appropriate and relevant units of ordering and linking of items into greater
blocks to be able to put ones ides across.
TEXT are any of a wide variety of types of genres linguistic forms which can be
spoken or written.
TEXTBOOK is one type of text, a book for use in an educational curriculum.

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