Which knowledge concerns how language is used in discourse, including expectations about cohesion and text organization?

• A. Schematic Knowledge
• B. Contextual Knowledge
• C. Semantic Knowledge
• D. Pragmatic Knowledge

Answer: (A)

Schematic knowledge is about how discourse is typically organized and how texts are expected to flow. It covers understanding genre conventions, the usual order of ideas, and the cohesion that binds a text together so it makes sense as a whole. While pragmatic knowledge deals with using language appropriately in different contexts and contextual knowledge with who, where, and why, cohesion and text organization are core aspects of how a text is structured, which is exactly what schematic knowledge covers. Semantic knowledge focuses on word meanings, which is not about discourse structure.