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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