Discourse Analysis

What is this?
1. This is all related of beyond a sentence (morphology, syntax, pragmatics, etc.) What is the language in use (context). And how discourse can include social practices that are not liguistic things (technological devices, or what are people wearing.)
2. Discourse is a larger system of thought that go on within a particular historical location.
Types
1. FORMAL LINGUISTIC (sociolinguistics)
  1. Principal sources are written or oral language and text
    1. microanalysis of linguistic, grammatical, and semantic uses and meanings of text
2. EMPIRICAL
  1. *Conversation analysis *Genre analysis
    1. Samples of written or oral language and texts; and data ot the uses of the text in social settings - microanalysis and macroanalysis of the way in which language and/or texts construct social practices
3. CRITICAL (Foucauldian analysis)
  1. Samples of written or oral language/texts; and data on the uses of the text in social settings: and data on the institutions and individuals who produce and are produced by language texts - macroanalysis of how discourses (in many forms) construct what is possible for individuals and institutions to think and to say
Why is Discourse analysis important for teachers of English
1. becuase it provides insight into the forms and mechanisms of human communicacion and verbal interaction

Resource summary

	Created by Jessica Sarabia over 7 years ago