"In terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk."
The study of the structure and meaning of written and spoken language in its social context.
Linguistic theories: Understanding the basic concepts and theories of language as well as different linguistic approaches to discourse analysis; such as structuralism, functionalism, pragmatics, semiotics, sociolinguistics, and register analysis.
Discourse and power: How power is embedded in discourse, and how discourse can shape power relations. Examples of this include the analysis of political speeches, media discourse, and institutional discourses.
Conversation analysis: Focusing on the structure and organization of conversational interactions as well as the use of conversational strategies by speakers to accomplish communication goals.
Foucauldian discourse analysis: A critical approach to analyzing power relations and the ways they are enacted through language and discourse. This theory involves identifying how certain kinds of knowledge are constructed while others are excluded, how institutional power is exercised, and how power relationships are established through language.
Multimodal discourse analysis: An interdisciplinary approach to discourse analysis that focuses on the different modes of communication (verbal, visual, audio, and digital) used by speakers to create meaning in different contexts and how these are interrelated.
Ethnography of Communication: This involves the study of language use in specific social settings and cultural contexts such as workplace communication, intercultural communication, healthcare communication and others.
Critical Discourse Analysis: A perspective that tries to understand the role of power in the production, interpretation, and circulation of discourse in society. This school of thought seeks to identify the hidden interests, ideologies, and inequalities within discourse and how these are reflected in text, image, and other modes of language use.
Narrative analysis: This approach focuses on the ways in which stories are constructed by individuals and how those stories are influenced by society's discourses, social norms, and cultural values.
Corpus linguistics: A computational approach that uses large collections of texts (corpora) to study patterns of language use, such as collocations, word frequencies, and concordances, and how they are used in discourse analysis.
Translation Studies: Studying the concepts, process, and techniques of translating texts with a focus on how meaning is communicated in source, target languages and how they change during the translation process. This also includes analyzing the cultural, social, and linguistic context within which translations are produced and received.
Pragmatics-based Discourse Analysis: This type of analysis focuses on the context in which the discourse is produced and tries to incorporate cultural, social, and linguistic elements to interpret discourse.
Critical Discourse Analysis: Critical Discourse Analysis focuses on identifying the discursive practices that reinforce power relations and ideologies. It aims to reveal the underlying power dynamics in language use, particularly in texts that relate to politics, media, or social issues.
Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: This method of analysis involves the use of large sets of linguistic data to examine patterns of language use, particularly across different genres, texts, and speakers.
Genre-Based Discourse Analysis: This type of analysis focuses on the structures and conventions that define different genres. It explores how these structures are constituted by and also help to shape the meaning, function, and interpretation of the text.
Contextual Discourse Analysis: This approach examines the contextual factors that shape meaning and interpretation, such as social, cultural, and historical contexts, as well as the linguistic and functional relations between the discourse and the situational context.
Cognitive Discourse Analysis: This type of discourse analysis is concerned with the way in which individuals construct meaning and conceptualize the world through language use. It analyses the cognitive processes involved in meaning-making and the role of language in shaping and expressing our thoughts, knowledge, and beliefs.
Compare and Contrast Discourse Analysis: This method of analysis involves comparing and contrasting different texts, speeches, or conversations to identify similarities, differences, and changes over time. It highlights the interdependence between texts and contexts and the way in which language use is shaped by historical, social, and cultural factors.
Stylistic Discourse Analysis: This approach focuses on the semantic, syntactic, and rhetorical features of texts, exploring how stylistic choices and elements affect meaning and interpretation. It aims to uncover the cognitive processes and knowledge structures that underlie stylistic choices in language use.
"Discourse analysts not only study language use 'beyond the sentence boundary' but also prefer to analyze 'naturally occurring' language use, not invented examples."
"Text linguistics is a closely related field."
"The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis aims at revealing socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons rather than text structure."
"Discourse analysis has been taken up in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, education, sociology, anthropology, social work, cognitive psychology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, international relations, human geography, environmental science, communication studies, biblical studies, public relations, argumentation studies, and translation studies."
"each of which is subject to its own assumptions, dimensions of analysis, and methodologies."
"written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event."
"coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk."
"naturally occurring' language use, not invented examples."
"socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons"
"text structure"
"education, sociology, anthropology, social work, cognitive psychology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, international relations, human geography, environmental science, communication studies, biblical studies, public relations, argumentation studies, and translation studies."
"each of which is subject to its own assumptions, dimensions of analysis, and methodologies."
"discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event"
"discourse analysis aims at revealing socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons rather than text structure"
"Text linguistics is a closely related field."
"coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk"
"naturally occurring language use"
"revealing socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons"
"linguistics, education, sociology, anthropology, social work, cognitive psychology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, international relations, human geography, environmental science, communication studies, biblical studies, public relations, argumentation studies, and translation studies"