25 in one sentence, which is generally called the
topic sentence. Also, each paragraph is linked with the one directly before it and the one after, and all the paragraphs can be seen as a unified whole, which can also be summarized in a sentence. To make
written language easy to read, certain marks are used to punctuate it. These marks are used to indicate where the reader needs to pause fora period of time (full stop and comma, raise the tone of their voice to either show that they are asking a question or that they are surprised. These marks are called
punctuation marks. They make the written discourse readable in a meaningful way. When punctuation marks are not
used in any written discourse, such discourse loses the full meaning that it ought to convey to the reader. A group of linguists, who developed interest in the study of written discourse in the tradition of Systemic Linguistics refers to the study of written discourse as
Textlinguistics. They believe written discourse
has certain characteristics, which make them essentially different from spoken discourse. They focus on the
textuallity of the discourse, which is marked by its cohesion and coherence. They also look at the elements that are thematized in a written discourse and how one paragraph relates to the other thematically (thematic progression. Examples of written discourse
are newspaper stories, letters, novels, articles in magazines, editorial in newspapers,
etc.
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