Text as a Connected

Discourse
Reading and Writing
Discourse
▪It is the conceptual generalization of communication
▪Uttered talk, speech, discussion and conversation
▪An extended expression of thoughts and ideas
Text
▪Came from the Old French word textus which means
“the scriptures”
▪A large unit of written language
▪A group of ideas that have been combined together to
have a main idea
Morphology
Types of Morphemes: Definition:
Free Morpheme A type of morpheme that could function
independently as a word
Bound Morpheme A type of morpheme that are bounded meaning to
say, it could not function independently as a word.
- Uses affixes (prefixes & suffixes)

▪ Morpheme – the smallest grammatical unit of language

Text Linguistics
▪It is a branch of linguistics that studies texts as a way of
relaying information or communication
▪The presentation of language as sets of sentences
▪Logical Meaning – the language gives meaning or
understanding to the text
Text as a Connected Discourse
▪It is the string of individual target segments joined
together in series (sentences)
▪Each segment influences the segments around it
Text as a Connected Discourse
▪Coherence
▪This is what makes the text semantically meaningful
▪Gives its writing its flow
Text as a Connected Discourse
▪Cohesion
▪It concerns the ways in which the components of text
are connected within the sequence
▪The use of repetition, transitional expressions and
other cohesive cues