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