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Discourse Strategies In Presenting A Spoken Summary

Table 2: Discourse strategies and moves in a spoke summary

Discourse Strategies Moves Move Markers
personal emotional evaluation supported by some evidence personal emotional evaluation + personal evidence adjectives expressing emotions, emphatic auxiliary verbs, high falling nuclear tones, raised pitch of voice
sharing a common opinion, tendency or a stereotype on the problem and offering some personal evidence to support it stating a common opinion or tendency + supporting evidence expressions of generalization, regularity and importance;phrases of agreement and support
presenting the essence of a problem through a classification or categorization naming categories + their specification (+ justification of categorisation) numerals, parenthetical words;expressions of specification
contradicting a common opinion or finding a compromise between the common and the personal opinion stating a common opinion + contradicting evidence (+ rejection /compromise) phrases of partial agreement or reluctance to agree with a common opinion;phrases of comparison and contrast
using a proverb, a quotation or an imperative sentence to summarize a situation in a laconic way stating an adage (+ personal commentary) expressions introducing an adage or a quotation
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