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SKILLS
CORE SUBJECT
25-50-25
Curriculum Guide
Describing Text as Connected Discourse
• Language is presented as sets of sentences and not fragments of sentences
• Text – sentences
• Text constructions
• Rules for making sentences
• Connected speech known as ‘ connected discourse” is spoken language that is
used in continuous sequence of sounds just like in normal conversations
• Pronounced words- pronounced in a context
Are you just merely reading a text? Or are you connecting it in discourse?
Branch of Linguistics
PHONOLOGY
MORPHOLOGY
SYNTAX
• The boy jumped happily
• The boy happily jumped
• Hospital?
• Student?
Identify the pragmatics
and the sociolinguistics
of the following tasks
Pragmatics Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics
• The study of language in relation to social factors including difference of regions,
class dialect and gender
• Choice of words for a given audience and situation to get a desired effect
• PHONOLOGY
• MORPHOLOGY
• SYNTAX
• SEMANTICS
• PRAGMATICS
• SOCIOLINGUISTICS