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Definition of discourse :
1. Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings.
2. In linguistics, discourse refers to a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse is the use of spoken or written language in a social context.
3. Discourse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications such as:
1. Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings.
2. In linguistics, discourse refers to a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse is the use of spoken or written language in a social context.
3. Discourse From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications such as:
- In semantics and discourse analysis: Discourse is a conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication.
- The totality of codified language (vocabulary) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera.
- In the work of Michel Foucault, and that of the social theoreticians he inspired: discourse describes "an entity of sequences, of signs, in that they are enouncements (énoncés)", statements in conversation.
4. Discourse is written as well as spoken: every utterance
assuming the a speaker Foucault, 1972: 80) The specification with the term is
that ‘discourse must be used with its social purpose’ this is the main
specification of discourse.
5. Foucault presents possibly the best definition of
discourse. He says, “Systems of thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, and
courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the
subjects and the worlds of which they speak.
Definition of analysis :
1.
Analysis
is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller
parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.
2.
Simple Definition of analysis
a.
a careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do,
and how they are related to each other
b.
an explanation of the nature and meaning of something.
3. Brown and Yule (1983) ) observe that DA examines “how addressers construct linguistic messages for addressees and how addressees work on linguistic messages in order to interpret them.”
4.While Nunan (1993), states the definition of discourse linguistics as the study of how stretches of language used in communication assume meaning, purpose and unity for their users: the quality of coherence (an interaction of text with given participants/context).
5. Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic character of the categories of speech and writing has been widely challenged,especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and practices on the Internet.
3. Brown and Yule (1983) ) observe that DA examines “how addressers construct linguistic messages for addressees and how addressees work on linguistic messages in order to interpret them.”
4.While Nunan (1993), states the definition of discourse linguistics as the study of how stretches of language used in communication assume meaning, purpose and unity for their users: the quality of coherence (an interaction of text with given participants/context).
5. Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic character of the categories of speech and writing has been widely challenged,especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and practices on the Internet.
Definition of discourse analysis
1. Discourse analysis is sometimes defined as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'.
1. Discourse analysis is sometimes defined as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'.
2. This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology), parts of words (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of as they flow together.
3. Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event.
4. discourse analysis is very ambiguous. It refers mainly to the linguistic analysis of naturally occurring connected speech or written discourse. Roughly speaking, it refers to attempts to study the organization of language above the sentence or above the clause, and therefore to study larger linguistic units, such as conversational exchanges or written texts. It follows that discourse analysis is also concerned with language use in social contexts, and in particular with interaction or dialogue between speakers.
5. Discourse
analysis is sometimes defined as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence.
This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which
are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of smaller bits of
language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology), parts of words
(morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences
(syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of as they flow together.
