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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - Coggle Diagram
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
- Analysis & Articulation of Discourse
- Cohesion
- Coherence
- Speech Acts
- Direct & Indirect Speech
- Form
- Function
- Text & Context
- Text Typology: Criteria
- Register
- Text & Text Typology
- Narrative Texts
2.1. Elements
2.2. Structure
2.3. Textual Features
- Text linguistics > Rhetoric, Texture > Text, Textuality > Intertextuality. Mode / Purpose
- a) Narrator: main/secondary/invented, omniscient/observer, 1st/2nd/3rd person, telling/showing;
- b) Characters: main/secondary/juncture, round/flat, direct/indirect; c) Theme: directly/story elements; d) Plot: (story grammar): beginning/middle/end; e) Setting: Space (imaginary/not, universal/specific, one/more, in/outdoor), Time (historical, internal, verbal, rhythmic) Atmosphere;
- Linear development, Flash-back (end>beginning), "in media res"
- Stream of consciousness, Free indirect speech
- Text & Text Typology
- Descriptive Texts
2.1. Types
2.2. Structure
2.3. Textual Features
- Text linguistics > Rhetoric, Texture > Text, Textuality > Intertextuality. Mode / Purpose
- a) Objective: systematic/accurate/photographic, impersonal/impartial, instructive/technical/scientific texts, logical order/enumerative/technical vocab, less common (related to expository); b) Subjective: /persuasive, Appeal to senses (prominent feature, dominant impression, verbal montage), Careful selection of words, Balanced use of lit devices (personification, dehumanization, hyperbole, metaphor); c) Others: Static (topography), Dynamic (chronology), characters (prosopography/etopeia/portrait/caricature)
- Observation (fixed/moving/impressionistic), Selection (of most relevant aspects), Order (of description), Literary devices (-)
- Lexical/Morphosyntactic approach, Stylistics of Deviation, Expressivity (denotative/connotative), Choice (reification, semantic loads, articulator of experience, (stylistic) repetition...
- Text & Text Typology
- Argumentative Texts
2.1. Types
2.2. Structure
2.3. Textual Features
- Text linguistics > Rhetoric, Texture > Text, Textuality > Intertextuality. Mode / Purpose
- a) Objective: /scientific, established facts/evidence/logical analysis, bibliographic references/personal experience/analogy, mainly written, -common;
b) Subjective: /persuasive, personal opinion/feelings, to provoke, pressupositions/connotations, ironical/apreciative-pejorativde/informal, oral/written, +common (dialectics); c) Others: "A fortiori" (accepted conclusion > more evidentone), "A contrario" (accepted conclusion > rejection of its contrary)
- a) Types of ~: Inductive/Deductive/Framed/Zig-zag/One-sided/Eclectic; b) ~ Elements: Thesis/Body of argumentation, +/- arguments;
c) Sequence of steps: Introduction, Explanation, Outline, Presenting proofs, Refutation, Conclusion
- Coherence/Clarity/Persuasion, Morphosyntactic/Lexical approach
- Text & Text Typology
- Expository Texts
2.1. Types
2.2. Structure
2.3. Textual Features
- Text linguistics> Rhetoric, Texture > Text, Textuality > Intertextuality. Mode / Purpose
- a) the Audience: General (divulging, of general interest to the general public) Specific (a specific discipline for a specialized audience/experts/educated); b) the Author's purpose: Definition (logical/rhetoric), Classification (bottom-up/top-down), Illustration (vividness, effectiveness), Comparison & Contrast (formal/rhetorical), Cause & Effect, Process
- a) Types of ~: Inductive (bottom-up/synthetic propositions), Deductive (top-down/analytic); b) Sequence of steps: Introduction, Development (Theme&Rheme, Anaphora&Cataphora), Conclusion
- Mechanisms of Cohesion (Shared knowledge, Thematic progression (paragraphs/sentences), Graphological devices); Morphosyntactic/Lexical approach
- Types
- Elements
- Structure
- Features
- conversation/dialogue; a) Dialogues: Formal, Informal, Literary; b) Texts: Journalistic, Dramatic (among the characters, playwright/stage director), Narrative (Direct/Indirect/Free indirect speech)
- a) Participants: Jakobson's 6 Elements/Functions; b) Purposes: Speech Acts & functions (assertive, directive, expressive, declarative, commisive)
- a) Sequence of steps: Opening (Greetings), Body, Ending (Negotiation s.); b) Conversational analysis: Turn-taking (requirements/control), Adjacency pairs (Q/A, etc.)
- a) Linguistic devices: Morphosyntactic (cohesion, connectors), Lexical approach (fillers, false starts, syntactic anomalies, pauses); b) Extralinguistic devices: Body language (gestures, facial expressions, gaze direction); c) Paralinguistic devices: Paralanguage (voice, silence)