This post includes a detailed explanation of Speech Act Theory along with Austin’s speech acts and Searle’s speech acts. In discourse analysis, speech act theory is a subfield of pragmatics that studies how words are used not only to present information but also to carry out actions. The speech act …
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This post includes a detailed description of cohesive devices along with the components of lexical cohesion in coherence and cohesion. Lexical cohesion involves the choice of vocabulary. It is concerned with the relationship that exists between lexical items in a text such as words and phrases, in particular, content words, …
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This post includes definitions and examples of Critical Discourse Analysis, discourse analysis and discourse in Linguistics. What is Discourse? Discourse is the verbal or written exchange of ideas. Any unit of connected speech or writing that is  A. longer than a sentence and  B. that has a coherent meaning …
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