SPOKEN DISCOURSE

Hello everyone!

Before explaining the first group of communicative strategies, I would like to highlight the features of spoken discourse, that you must bear in mind during the course. 

• Spoken discourse is interactive and spontaneous, that is, it is produced in real time and cannot be planned.
• The message (what we say) is more important than the structure (how we say it) in spoken discourse.
• Spoken dicourse is not produced under the same conditions as written discourse so, it has its own rules.
• As spoken discourse is unplanned, making mistakes, self-correcting them, repeating words, restarting sentences, using simpler vocabulary and hesitating is normal.

Hence, you must forget the idea that spoken discourse is as accurate as written discourse because it is not, especially in informal communicative contexts where such accuracy would sound unnatural to native speakers.


Then, the communicative strategies that you are about to learn will help you to overcome fluently and naturally the hurdles in communication.

Regards,


Sara