An Analysis with An accompanying commentary of an extract of spoken discourse of Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the spoken discourse of a formal lecture to undergraduates in order to determine those features which distinguish spoken discourse when comp- pared to written discourse. The paper pays particular. attention to those featuare differences to normal written discourse which are employed in order to provide for effective communication in a speaker/ listener situation.

Keywords

• spoken
• discourse
• mechanical
• engineering