written discourse

collocation in English

meanings of writtenand discourse

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written
adjective
uk /ˈrɪt.ən/ us /ˈrɪt̬.ən/
expressed in writing, or ...
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discourse
noun
uk /ˈdɪs.kɔːs/ us /ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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Examples of written discourse

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The effects of segmenting writtendiscourse on the reading comprehension of low- and high-performance readers.
The work concentrates mainly on the writtendiscourse concerning royalty.
The issues being addressed include typological constraints, the relation between replication and borrowing and between replication and attrition, the role of writtendiscourse, and naturalness.
There is, naturally, a large number of words, meanings and phrases that appear frequently in speech but rarely (if ever) in writtendiscourse.
In contrast, natural writtendiscourse is relatively static, and individual word and context characteristics can be easily studied.
He is also interested in issues pertaining to literacy, writtendiscourse analysis, and applied linguistics more generally.
Relative focus on involvement in oral and writtendiscourse.
With growth and with growing experience with literate activities, writtendiscourse style becomes part of the linguistic competence of users.
In their review of studies of children's vocabulary knowledge, they focused on the consistent finding of positive correlations between vocabulary and comprehension of writtendiscourse.
Actions do not necessarily speak louder than words; rather, actions, like writtendiscourse, create the subject.
With so much done on acquisition from written texts, researchers with writtendiscourse can follow many leads into new territory.
First of all, subject extraposition is slightly more frequent in writtendiscourse than in spoken discourse (1.94 versus 1.46 occurrences per 1,000 words).
A modern history of writtendiscourse analysis.
Since the referential function is frequently needed in writtendiscourse, this can explain both the extensive use and the productivity in the narrow sense of nominalizations in the corpus.
Participants were asked to write their compositions as though they were writing an encyclopedic entry, thus directing them towards using higherregister, literate, writtendiscourse style in both genres.
Sizer's book is a thorough study of female assertions of political power through writtendiscourse.
It was a writtendiscourse.
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