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Theory: Discourse

It was noted in an earlier blog post concerning texts that discourse is generally understood as pertaining to speech and texts to writing. Moreover, it was specified that this common sense division to speech and writing is also utilized by some, but not all linguists. For others, these terms are interchangeable. I tried my best […]

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Theory: Texts

Text is commonly thought of as a mere synonym for writing. It can, however, also be understood more broadly as pertaining not only to written language, but also spoken language. It is also possible to understand it even more broadly, so that it pertains to anything that is thought to be meaningful, regardless of the […]