A Reappraisal of Lexical Cohesion in Conversational Discourse

González, María de los Ángeles Gómez

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“…Word repetition, a resource triggered by speakers as a filler or repair echoing the immediate repetition of the previous speaker's most current utterance (Tannen, 1987). This technique is particularly useful for interactive purposes in conversation (Gómez González, 2012;Tanskanen, 2006). 7.…”

Section: Powerful and Powerless Stylementioning

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Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

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Montero-Fleta

2014

ijes

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Following one of the new challenges suggested by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, a treatment was developed to enhance pragmatic competence, since this competence is not easy to acquire by non-native speakers. Within this context, we focused on pragmatic awareness in the workplace, an area of expertise in growing demand today. Specifically, we centred on the power variable and the distinction between powerful and powerless speech styles through negotiation, co-planning and goal-oriented interactions. Powerful speech has been envisaged as the language of success; however, the positive implications of powerless speech in the workplace have been recently posited. After an instruction phase, the results confirmed that powerless markers were prone to be used adequately in writing, while in oral interactions non-native speakers were not able to employ them fluently or, at least, naturally. The treatment encouraged the critical engagement of students in the process of learning new ways of communicating at work. RESUMENEn relación a uno de los retos planteados por el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCERL), presentamos un estudio para desarrollar la competencia pragmática. Centrándonos en la conciencia pragmática en entornos laborales, el estudio dedica atención especial a la variable de poder y a la distinción entre estilos de lenguaje con o sin poder por medio de actividades de negociación, co-planificación e interacción orientada a objetivos. El lenguaje de poder se ha considerado siempre una garantía de éxito. Sin embargo, se han señalado recientemente implicaciones positivas del lenguaje sin poder en entornos laborales. Tras una fase de instrucción los resultados confirmaron el uso adecuado de marcadores de ausencia de poder en el lenguaje escrito; por el contrario, en las interacciones orales se observó una mayor dificultad en el uso fluido o natural de dichos marcadores discursivos. La actividad propició la participación crítica en el proceso de aprendizaje de formas de comunicación en ámbitos laborales. PALABRAS CLAVE:Competencia pragmática, atenuación lingüística, marcadores discursivos, Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCERL), interacciones laborales.

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Section: Powerful and Powerless Stylementioning

confidence: 99%

Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Pérez-Sabater

Montero-Fleta

2014

ijes

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“…Indicative examples of visual anaphora as syntactic markers that confer a unique semantic structure to the ad filmic text, by analogy to the syntactic markers as customarily employed in textual linguistics (e.g. Swanson 2003; Gonzalez 2012), consist of (i) recurrent product shots, embedded in slice-oflife, experiential moments featuring the advertised brand, in a considerable portion of the filmic segments (e.g. Budweiser bottle and/or logo) and (ii) recurrent same visuals (under different camera angles) with a color coding that is indicative of the featured brand's color codes (e.g.…”

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Conducting Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis of TV Ads with Atlas.ti 7

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Multimodal Communication

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Cohesion

González¹

2015

The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction

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Cohesion is a textual phenomenon that refers to the grammatical and lexical devices that serve a cohesive function, that is, establish relations between presupposing and presupposed elements that give unity to a text. To attain cohesion, access routes are established among expressions within a surface format (or linguistic items). Grammatical cohesion involves small, closed classes of grammatical items or gaps used in reference , substitution , ellipsis , and conjunction —as these terms are used in systemic functional linguistics ( SFL ). In contrast, lexical cohesion concerns the way in which lexical items (single words or multiword units such as kick the bucket or bed and breakfast ) relate to each other, so that textual continuity is created and information is provided about the way lexemes are organized in the discourse ( lexical patterning ).

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A Reappraisal of Lexical Cohesion in Conversational Discourse

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Pragmatic competence and social power awareness: The case of written and spoken discourse in non-native English environments

Conducting Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis of TV Ads with Atlas.ti 7

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