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.

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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

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