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PECULIARITIES OF WRITTEN DISCOURSE TRACING THE PATTERNS. ... Formality can also be a reflection of social-group membership, particularly occupation, where some types of occupational language have retained special words which sound very formal in everyday discourse: for example, a financial consultant or solicitor might use the word ‘remuneration’ where the rest of us would use ‘salary’ or just ‘wages’. ... In many types of discourse we often use ’the’ to refer anaphorically to some-thing which has already been introduced by using ‘a’. ... This can involve long phrases, replaced by useful smaller items such as single words ‘do’ or ‘so’, and is very characteristic of spontaneous spoken discourse. ... In some types of written texts, ellipsis can be used deliberately in order to create an illusion of close-ness between writer and reader. ... […] A text can create a particular relationship between the real writer and the real reader by constructing a piece of fictional discourse between implied versions of themselves: Real writer Implied writer TEXT Implied reader Real reader Advertising copywriter Narrator Assumptions made about us in the text The real person Novelist Ditto Ditto Ditto If you have difficulty understanding the difference between the real audience and the implied one, then think about the following analogies: TV adverts for washing powder show women (‘implied readers’) as people whose lives revolve around the quality of their washing. |
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