"In terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk."
The analysis of how language is used in social context.
Language and Communication: An overview of how language is used in communication and its role in discourse analysis.
Context: The importance of context in discourse analysis, including the influence of cultural, social, political, and historical factors on language use.
Discourse Structure: An exploration of the structure of discourse, including the form, style, organization, and coherence of language in different modes of discourse.
Pragmatics: The study of how linguistic meaning is related to context and how language use is shaped by social and cultural norms.
Power and Ideology: An examination of how power relations and social hierarchies are conveyed and reinforced through language use.
Genre: An analysis of the conventions and expectations of different types of discourse, such as speeches, narratives, and academic writing.
Corpus Linguistics: The use of large collections of text in discourse analysis, including strategies for collecting, analyzing, and representing data.
Multimodality: An exploration of how meaning is conveyed through a variety of semiotic modes, including language, images, and gestures.
Conversation Analysis: The study of how language is used in interaction, including the structure and organization of conversations.
Critical Discourse Analysis: An approach to discourse analysis that is concerned with exposing and challenging power relations and ideologies in language use.
Conversational Analysis: This type of discourse analysis focuses on the way people interact with each other in conversation. It analyzes the structure and patterns of conversation, the roles of the participants, the use of language, and so on.
Critical Discourse Analysis: This type of discourse analysis examines the way language is used to construct power relations, ideologies, and cultural norms. It is often used in the analysis of political discourse, media discourse, and other forms of social discourse.
Sociolinguistic Discourse Analysis: This type of discourse analysis focuses on the way language is used in different social contexts, including social classes, gender, ethnicity, and age. It explores the variations in language used by people belonging to different social groups.
Narrative Discourse Analysis: This type of discourse analysis focuses on the way people construct stories and narratives to make sense of their experiences. It examines the structure, content, and themes of narratives, and how they are used to express emotions, beliefs, and values.
Genre Analysis: This type of discourse analysis examines the way language is used in different genres, such as news articles, advertisements, and academic papers. It analyzes the structural features, language use, and linguistic devices that are characteristic of different genres.
Multimodal Discourse Analysis: This type of discourse analysis examines the way language is combined with other modes of communication such as images, videos, and gestures. It explores the relationship between different modes of communication and how they contribute to the overall meaning of a message.
"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"