Textual Features: Exposition, Argumentation, and Linguistic Nuances
Exposition
Purpose
Exposition objectively explains a theme, providing knowledge to the audience. Its purpose is purely informative, focusing on the referential function.
Classification by Audience
Texts can circulate as general or specialized expositions.
Lexical Features
- Monosemic and Denotative Words: Words have a single meaning to avoid different interpretations.
- Technicalities: Specialized vocabulary is common, especially in technical texts.
- Neologisms and Acronyms: New words and abbreviations are frequently
Premodifiers, Determiners, and Word Formation in English
Premodifier Types
1. Determiners
2. Numbers
3. Adjectives
Premodifiers: Possible Forms
Most Common Forms
Adjectives:
En– participle, -ing participle
Noun:
Less Common Forms
- NP
- Adverb
- Coordinated clauses
The Function of Premodifiers
Epithets
Descriptors are used to ascribe quality or property to a referent:
Descriptive: They indicate an object’s quality.
Evaluative: They indicate a subjective quality. They can have a pejorative or an appreciative value:
Appreciative: a good film, an intelligent remark
Pejorative: a
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The Verb: Core Function
The verb is the core of the verb phrase. Depending on the speaker, the predicate may be considered core, as the verb is always the core of the predicate or copula. It is the authentic core attribute predicate. Depending on the predicate’s core, it can be verbal or nominal. The verb always agrees in gender and number with the subject.
Verb Shape
- Lexeme and morpheme: “Ced-“
- Thematic vowel: “-ie-“
- Tense, mood, voice, and aspect: “-is-“
- Number and person: “-n”
Verbal Inflections
The
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The Art of Speech
Speech is a form of oral expression where ideas on a given topic are presented to convince an audience.
Effective speech preparation involves researching the topic, selecting key ideas, adopting an appropriate formal tone, and applying effective expression techniques.
A typical speech script follows a three-part structure: introduction, body, and conclusion.
Discourse language is characterized by declarative, exclamatory, and interrogative sentences, the use of jargon, and vocatives.
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Understanding Sentence Structure
Pronouns are words that refer to the same entities as nouns and can function as a noun phrase.
Personal Pronouns
Personal pronouns designate the speaker, the listener, and other entities, forming a grammatical person notion. They can be stressed (tonic) or unstressed (atonic).
Other Pronoun Types
Possessive pronouns, demonstratives, numerals, indefinite, interrogative, and exclamatory pronouns express concepts or relationships similar to their corresponding adjectives.
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Umlaut in Tense
In vocal + IR – Air-EIA,-UIR, reflecting it 3 ways:
- Accent Graphic: Accent on standards and the general daccentuació.
- No sign spelling: Infinitive, gerund, Future Conditional.
- Umlaut: The rest DLS Cass dstcnt l Join.
• on-ear vocal + RA,-IAR, OAR-,-uart when ends in-y, is, in the prisoner-of Subj and imp. Menysque ending in-or guar – Quar where the umlaut on the u doing diphthong was growing. + Member IAR • on-Aiar, eiar-, – oiar in-and-is, in the prisoner-of Subj and eliminating
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