Oral and written discourse differences

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  • 8/18/2019 Oral and written discourse differences

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    Oral discourse Written discourse

    •  The sentences are short andsimple

    • Is not less organized, it has its

    own kind of complexity• Less lexical, content words tend

    to be spread out over a numberof clauses.

    • It has lacks organization and isungrammatical because isspontaneous.

    Contains more uncompletedand reformulated sentences.•  Topics can be changed• peakers may interrupt and

    overlap.• Contains more repetition,

    hesitations and redundancy.• !as many pauses and "llers.

    • It is more structurallcomplex and moreelaborate.

    !as a high level ofnominalization.•  Tends to have longe

    groups.• #riting is more expl

    depending on the si• #riting is more

    decontextualized bespeech depends on situation and backginterpretation.

    • It is planned• Can be edited• $xplains everything

    with more informati