"In terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk."
The study of how language is used in context, including the study of spoken and written texts, conversation, and social interaction.
Speech Acts: The study of the intended meaning behind words and actions.
Context: The circumstances, surroundings, and background information that inform communication.
Conversational Analysis: The study of how speakers employ turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and other interactional features in conversation.
Implicature: The meaning conveyed indirectly by language.
Politeness: The study of social norms and manners in communication.
Discourse Markers: Words or phrases that signal the structure and organization of discourse.
Intertextuality: The influence of past discourse on current speech and writing.
Speech Communities: Groups of people who share a language, vocabulary, and communication practices.
Ideology: The study of how language shapes and reflects ideologies.
Critical Discourse Analysis: The study of power imbalances and social injustices in language and discourse.
Narrative Analysis: The study of how stories are constructed in social interaction.
Linguistic Relativity: The theory that language shapes the way we perceive and think about the world.
Metaphor: The use of language to convey a concept or idea through analogy or comparison.
Lexical Semantics: The study of word meaning and how it is used in context.
Pragmatic Markers: Words or phrases that signal speaker attitudes and intentions.
Conversation Analysis: Focuses on the micro-level analysis of talk-in-interaction, examining how people use language to produce meaning in specific contexts.
Discursive Psychology: Examines how discourse is used to construct social identities, attitudes, and beliefs, emphasizing the psychological processes involved.
Critical Discourse Analysis: Analyzes how discourse is shaped by power relations and ideologies, examining how language reflects and reinforces social and political structures.
Multimodal Discourse Analysis: Expands the scope of discourse analysis beyond language to include other semiotic resources such as images, visuals, and sounds.
Interactional Sociolinguistics: Studies the relationship between discourse and social structure, emphasizing the role of language in the negotiation of social identities and relationships.
Ethnomethodology: Investigates how people make sense of their social world through their everyday practices, including language use.
Corpus Linguistics: Uses computer-assisted analysis of large collections of texts to identify patterns of language use and variation across different contexts and communities.
Narrative Analysis: Examines how stories are used to create meaning and convey social information, including personal and cultural narratives.
Genre Analysis: Studies how different types of texts are structured and used in particular contexts, emphasizing the conventions and expectations associated with different genres of discourse.
Pragmatic Discourse Analysis: Examines the relationship between language use and social context, emphasizing the role of speakers and hearers in interpreting meaning and constructing social reality.
"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"