Over a shimmering, rattling musical background, it was a continuous spoken discourse aimed at some imaginary sad sack, crazy with old-fashioned mother-wit vernacular.
Following the conquests, both urban and rural culture began to adopt elements of Arab culture, and an Arabic vernacular eventually replaced the Egyptian language as the common means of spoken discourse.
There is no clear-cut boundary for each language function and some spoken discourse involves a variety of language functions.
Most European languages are now documented in spoken discourse corpora of variable size, but only English currently disposes of several mid-size and large resources.
Although the results only apply to limited registers like news commentary, the study adds to our understanding of the wave-like pattern of spoken discourse in general.
The first area involves the mechanical (i.e., linguistic) features of language, which refer to the grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary demonstrated in spoken discourse.
Corpora of spoken discourse are structured collections of naturally occurring speech (in narrative or conversational form) organized in larger textual units and compiled systematically with a linguistic aim in mind.
For instance, independent speaking tasks result in monologic spoken discourse on a variety of topics by incorporating speakers' own knowledge and/or experience through a variety of rhetorical/pragmatic functions.
This article proposes additional refinements, particularly to the system of Attitude, informed by research into the deployment of evaluative resources in spoken discourse by postgraduate students in small group discussions in English and in Vietnamese.
Furthermore, in the semantic triangle, the Boethian ordo orandi now can be described entirely in terms of sign and significate.[43] Insofar as concepts agree with vocal expressions in their function of being signs, it makes sense to conceive of thought processes as a kind of mental speech (oratio mentalis) showing close analogies to spoken discourse.
