Discourse Analysis Looking beyond the sentence…. What is discourse? Linguistic unit that usually comprises more than one sentence. From the Latin word.

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Discourse Analysis Looking beyond the sentence…

What is discourse? Linguistic unit that usually comprises more than one sentence. From the Latin word discursus meaning conversation or speech. Discourse analysis-what is this?

“Discourses can be defined as connected sets of statements, concepts, terms and expressions, which constitute a way of talking about or writing about a particular issue, thus framing the way people understand and act with respect to that issue.” Foucault (1980)

How do we divide a text?

Cohesion The techniques and devices used to connect different parts of a text. They help the sentences of a text hang together so that the reader is able to ‘track’ the meaning. It is possible to invent a sequence of sentences that are highly cohesive but incoherent. EG‘A week has seven days. Every day I feed my cat. Cats have four legs. The cat is on the mat. Mat has three letters.

Reference Anaphoric-when a word refers back to something that has already been mentioned, this is an anaphoric reference. EG‘My great-grandfather was an Irishman. He (pron.) was born in Dublin in 1875.’ Cataphoric- when a word refers to something that hasn’t been mentioned yet. EG‘He gave the following reasons for his decision’

Deictics Deixis/deictic expressions- terms which refer to the personal, temporal or locational characteristics of a situation, and whose meaning only makes sense in that context or situation. EG‘here’ and ‘there’ and ‘this’ and ‘that’ only make sense when taken in context. Language is used to ‘point’ to the aspects of an event.

Deictics ‘When language is spoken, it occurs in a specific location, at a specific time, is produced by a specific person and is (usually) addressed to some specific other person or persons. Only written language can ever be free of this kind of anchoring in the extra linguistic situation. A sequence on a slip of paper can move through space and time, ‘speaker’- less, and address-less. All natural, spoken language have devices that link the utterance with its spatio-temporal and personal context. This link is called ‘deixis’. Christine Tanz