期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：4
页码：203
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Discourse, written or spoken communication or debate, is important in speakers’speech. Therefore, shedding light on discourse and better understanding of the speakingdiscourse and its characteristics may lead to new empirical techniques for identifying discoursestructure from speech as well as new algorithms for enhancing the naturalness of syntheticspeech. Accordingly, the current review paper summarized the results of many approaches,distinctions, and studies as to speaking discourse conducted from 1973 to 2014 and fromdifferent scholars’ perspectives. The analysis and justification of all of the reviewed studiesimplied that spoken discourse has covered many other elements inside; in other words, the gist ofthe matter is that speech is the first draft status which has some distinctive features likeintonation, loudness/quietness, gestures and body language, stress, markers, gender difference.Furthermore, there are some specific differences between speaking and written discourse. Thus,every element of speaking discourse should be considered important. To sum, the resultssuggested that finding the crucial relations among discourse styles can help scholars understandhow languages work for different people.
关键词：Speaking Discourse; Written Discourse; Discourse Markers
