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A 9 page paper which looks at a textbook for English language learners in the hospitality industry, with reference to Guy Cook's discourse theory. The bibliography lists 2 sources.
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useful to briefly consider how discourse itself is defined. Discourse is not simply the process of spoken or written communication, but is also concerned with the way that language and
social action are interrelated. As we acquire and use language, we do so within specific social contexts and in relation to specific cultural attitudes: a reference to working class language
or bourgeois language, for example, does not indicate a type of discourse which the speaker has learned through explicit instruction, but one which has been acquired through their familiarity with
the appropriate social milieu. Working class language is not a linguistic form as such, but a social construct. Discourse is, then, highly
significant in terms of ones position on the social map: use of language gives an indication of sociocultural factors such as status, economic level, religious belief system, and so on.
It is not confined solely to spoken or written language, since there are non-verbal clues and signals which tacitly convey this kind of information to the interlocutor. As Cook (1989)
points out, body position, movement, intonation and patterns of eye contact all contribute to the exchange of information which takes place in the course of a conversational interaction. When communicating,
we acquire knowledge not through a straightforward one-way transmission of information, but through a complicated interplay between concepts, language and non-verbal signs, which takes place in a sociocultural context of
discourse. Cook points out that discourse is not a single snapshot of events, but an ongoing, evolving process in which the participants
gradually construct meaning in the course of their interaction. However, because discourse is structured according to sociocultural parameters of values, behavior, status and so on, there will be many "breeding
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