Sentence examples for spoken discourse from inspiring English sources

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.

The first area involves the mechanical (i.e., linguistic) features of language, which refer to the grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary demonstrated in spoken discourse.

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.

When spoken discourses, such as research interviews, are written down, the texts (in this case the interview transcripts) become "autonomous" with respect to the interviewees' intentions [ 31, 39, 40].

No matter who is speaking, discourse on race isn't supposed to be easy.

Erman and Warren (2000) calculated that formulaic sequences of various classes constituted 58.6% of the spoken English discourse they analyzed and 52.3% of the written discourse.

This paper analyses laughter in spoken academic discourse, with the aim of discovering why lecturers provoke laughter in their lectures.

The TOPE therefore adopts both one-to-one and the paired candidate formats based not only upon pedagogical considerations, but also upon the findings of various studies of spoken language discourse.