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s it that makes a passage written or a set of utterances spoken a unified whole instead of just a collection of unrelated sentences? Are there any certain features that are characteristic of discourse? In order to answer these questions, a probe needs to be made to look into the inner mechanisms that govern the making of a discourse.
   Normal linguistic behavior does not consist in the production of separate sentences but in the use of sentences for the creation of discourse. A discourse may be spoken or written, prose or verse, dialogue or monologue. It is a unit of language in use. It is misleading to envisage a discourse to be a kind of super-sentence, a grammatical unit that is larger than a sentence but is related to a sentence in much the same way that a sentence is related to a clause, a clause to a group and so on. A discourse is different from a sentence not in size but in kind.

A text is best regarded as a SEMANTIC unit: a unit not of form but of meaning. Thus it is related to a clause or sentence not by size but by
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