Definition of Discourse analysis
1.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 language as they flow
together.
Some discourse analysts consider the larger discourse context in order to
understand how it affects the meaning of the sentence. For example, Charles
Fillmore points out that two sentences taken together as a single discourse can
have meanings different from each one taken separately. To illustrate, he asks
you to imagine two independent signs at a swimming pool: "Please use the
toilet, not the pool," says one. The other announces, "Pool for
members only." If you regard each sign independently, they seem quite
reasonable. But taking them together as a single discourse makes you go back
and revise your interpretation of the first sentence after you've read the
second.
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2.
Discourse analysis is a broad term for the study of the ways in
which
language is used in
texts
and
contexts. Also called
discourse studies.
Developed in the 1970s, the field
of discourse analysis is concerned with "the use of language in a
running discourse, continued over a number of sentences,
and involving the interaction of speaker (or writer)
and auditor (or reader) in a specific situational context, and
within a framework of social and cultural conventions
By : (Abrams and Harpham,
A Glossary of Literary Terms, 2005).
3.
"
Discourse analysis
is concerned with language use as a social phenomenon and therefore necessarily
goes beyond
one speaker or
one newspaper article to find
features which have a more generalized relevance. This is a potentially
confusing point because the publication of research findings is generally
presented through examples and the analyst may choose a single example or case
to exemplify the features to be discussed, but those features are only of
interest as a social, not individual, phenomenon."
by : (Stephanie Taylor,
What is Discourse Analysis? Bloomsbury,
2013)
4. "[Discourse analysis] is not only about method; it is also a
perspective on the nature of language and its relationship to the central
issues of the social sciences. More specifically, we see discourse analysis as
a related collection of approaches to discourse, approaches that entail not
only practices of data collection and analysis, but also a set of metatheoretical
and theoretical assumptions and a body of research claims and studies."
by :(Linda Wood and Rolf Kroger,
Doing Discourse Analysis. Sage, 2000)
5.
discourse analysis is
is
typically based on the linguistic output of
someone other than the analystMore typically, the discourse analyst's 'data' is
taken from written texts or tape recordings. It is rarely in the form of a
single sentence. The type of linguistic material is sometimes described as
'performance data' and may contain features such as hesitations, slips, and non-standard forms which a
linguist like Chomsky (1965) believed
should not have to be accounted for in the grammar of a language."
by :(G. Brown and G. Yule, Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University
Press, 1983)
Definition of Discourse
1. Discourse
is :
(2) More broadly, discourse is the use
of spoken or written language in a social context.
2.
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. Michel Foucault's early
writings ('The Order of Discourse', 1971; The Archaeology of Krlowledge, 1972)
were especially influential in this. Foucault's work gave the terms 'discursive
practices' and 'discursive formation' to the analysis of particular
institutions and their ways of establishing orders of truth, or what is
accepted as 'reality' in a given society. An established 'discursive formation'
is in fact defined by the contradictory discourses it contains and this tolerance
Foucault understands as a sign of stability rather than as it would be
understood in Marxism, for exampleÑof conflict and potential change. Thus
characterized, a given 'discursive formation' will give definition to a
particular historical moment or episteme. 'Discursive formations' do
nevertheless display a hierarchical arrangement and are understood as
reinforcing certain already established identities or subjectivities (in
matters of sexuality, status, or class, for example). These dominant discourses
are understood as in turn reinforced by existing systems of law, education and
the media.
3.
A discourse is an instance of language use whose type
can be classified on the basis of such factors as grammatical and lexical
choices and their distribution in
main versus supportive materials
style, and
the framework of knowledge and
expectations within which the addressee
interprets the discourse.
4.
Discourse is one of the four systems of language, the
others being vocabulary, grammar and phonology. Discourse has various
definitions but one way of thinking about it is as any piece of extended
language, written or spoken, that has unity and meaning and purpose. One
possible way of understanding 'extended' is as language that is more than one
sentence.
5.
Discourse is one of the four systems of language, the
others being vocabulary, grammar and phonology. Discourse has various
definitions but one way of thinking about it is as any piece of extended
language, written or spoken, that has unity and meaning and purpose. One
possible way of understanding 'extended' is as language that is more than one
sentence.
Definition of Analysis
1. 1
. Analysis is this
process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its
essential features and their relations the grammatical analysis of a sentence.
2. Analysis
is a careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do, and how
they are related to each other an
explanation of the nature and meaning of something .
3. Analysis
is By the time you get to the analysis of your data, most of the really
difficult work has been done. It's much more difficult to: define the research
problem; develop and implement a sampling plan; conceptualize, operationalize
and test your measures; and develop a design structure. If you have done this
work well, the analysis of the data is usually a fairly straightforward affair.
