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The document discusses different approaches to analyzing discourse and functions that are not always predictable from linguistic forms. It summarizes that various analysts have studied discourse through different frameworks such as examining illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect. It also describes systems developed by Sinclair and Coulthard for classroom discourse analysis and Brazil for analyzing discourse intonation. An example movie dialogue is then analyzed using these approaches to demonstrate

Author
Joana Monteiro
Language
EN