1. What is discourse analysis?
IT IS ALWAYS BE A BIG QUESTION.
What is discourse analysis?

2. THE FIRST THING TO KNOW IS
What is discourse?

3. SCHRIFFIN ET AL (2003) NOTE THAT THERE ARE “THREE MAIN CATEGORIES” OF DISCOURSE DEFINITION
ANYTHING BEYOND THE SENTENCE;
LANGUAGE IN USE;
A BROADER RANGE OF SOCIAL PRACTICE THAT INCLUDES NONLINGUISTIC AND NONSPECIFIC INSTANCE OF LANGUAGE

4. FOUCAULT’S SENSE OF “DISCOURSE”
NOT JUST THE LANGUAGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATION (WHICH IS REGARDED AS A “SAMPLE”), BUT THE LARGER SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT WITHIN A PARTICULAR HISTORICAL LOCATION THAT MAKE CERTAIN THINGS “THINKABLE” AND “SAYABLE” AND REGULATING WHO CAN SAY THEM.

5. What is discourse analysis?

6. GEE BREAKS DA DOWN INTO TWO BASIC APPROACHES
DESCRIPTIVE (LARGELY LINGUISTICS)
CRITICAL (APPLIED, POLITICAL)

7. Hodges et al (2008: 571) 3 APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
ORIENTATION TO DISCOURSE
SOURCES OF THE DATA
MICROANALYSIS
FORMAL LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (SUCH AS SOCIOLINGUISTICS)
SAMPLES OF WRITTEN OR ORAL LANGUAGE AND TEXT
MICROANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC, GRAMMATICAL AND SEMANTIC USES AND MEANING OF A TEXT
EMPIRICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (SUCH AS CONVERSATION ANALYSIS, GENRE ANALYSIS)
SAMPLES OF WRITTEN OR ORAL LANGUAGE AND TEXT AND DATA ON THE LANGUAGE “USES” OF THE TEXT IN SOCIAL SETTING
MICROANALYSIS AND MICROANALYSIS ANALYSIS OF THE WAY IN WHICH LANGUAGE AND/ OR TEXT CONSTRUC SOCIAL PRACTICES
CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (SUCH AS FOUCALDIAN ANALYSIS)
SAMPLES OF WRITTEN OR ORAL LANGUAGE AND TEXT DATA ON THE LANGUAGE “USES” OF THE TEXT IN SOCIAL SETTING; AND DATA ON THE INSTITUTION AND INDIVIDUAL WHO PRODUCE AND ARE PRODUCED BY THE LANGUAGE TEXTS.
MACROANALYSIS OF HOW DISCOURSES (IN MANY FORMS) CONSTRUCT WHAT IS POSSIBLE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS TO THINK AND TO SAY

8. DISCOURSE & DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Language beyond sentence
Linguist
Diagraming sentence
Looking at how those formal properties are playing in discourse analysis or in how peopel are using more than one sentence/paragraph/ together
Language in use
Applied linguist
Conversational analysis
(empirical discourse analysis)
e.g. (Conversation between nurse and patience and the situation around them)
Larger social practices (Foucault)
Critical DA (power issues over time) (inequality)
Social sciences (education, communication)
e.g. Particular time with particular situation  particular understanding
(Masculinity over period of time)
Thinkable and sayable

9. CONCLUSION LANGUAGE BEYOND THE SENTENCE LANGUAGE USE
LANGUAGE AS LARGER SOCIAL PROCESSESS