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Discourse
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Language beyond the level of the sentence. The word discourse can refer to both spoken and written language. However, these progressions use it mainly for spoken language, because it captures the fact that a lot of spoken language is often unpredictable. For example, although the language used to open and close a telephone conversation may follow a predictable pattern, the middle section with the key messages generally does not.
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