چکیده مقاله
Discourse analysis DA , or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyze written, spoken, signed language use or any significant semiotic event A topic or a theme is what discourse, a discourse fragment or a sentence is about It is the shortest summary of a discourse This article reports on a part of a large scale study on discourse focusing on how students identify a topic for a passage through familiarity with its discourse To conduct the research a series of paragraphs were given to 15 female students, and they were asked to complete the paragraphs with choosing an English topic from among the given options The students described the process of completing the task by expressing their reasons in their mother language At the end their reasons were analyzed and the most important reasons were described The findings of the study emphasize the importance of discourse knowledge in understanding a text
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نویسندگان
Razieh Bagheripour
Visiting lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Higher Education Complex of Bam, Bam, Iran
Ebrahim Samani
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Higher Education Complex of Bam, Bam, Iran
شیوه ارجاع
Bagheripour, Razieh and Samani, Ebrahim,1398,Understanding the structure of paragraphs: the role of discourse knowledge,4th International Conference on the Study of Language, Literature, Culture and History
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