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WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? Discourse analysis examines how people manage…
WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? Discourse analysis examines how people manage and cooperate in conversations, to understand the underlying norms of communication.
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Talk as Social Activity
Contributions and Areas of Study
Adjacent pair analysis, turn-taking, conversation openings and closings.
Observation of Conversational Behavior
Analysis focused on how people manage and cooperate in conversation (direct observation).
Rigid Conventions
In formal contexts (teacher-student, doctor-patient), it is easy to predict who will speak and when.
Casual Conversation
Between equals, everyone has a role in controlling discourse.
Analysis of Casual Conversations
There are more complications, interruptions, less predictable, more dynamic.
Problems and Complexities:
Unanswered questions, multiple people talking at once.
Discourse Analysis Models:
Sinclair-Coulthard exchange model, limitations of structured models in casual conversations.
Differences between Contexts: Signs of deference and speaking rights: e.g., the teacher is still seen as the dominant speaker.
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Written Discourse
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Differences between Written and Spoken Texts: In written texts, there are not multiple people talking at the same time and ideas are better structured.
Regularities in Written Texts: recurring principles in text structure, conventional forms of opening and closing texts.
Grammatical Cohesion: well-formed texts, limited choices, cohesion between sentences.
Cohesion vs. Coherence
Cohesion guides coherence while coherence created by the reader interpreting the text.
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Features of grammatical cohesion: pronouns, ellipsis, and conjunctions.
Form and function
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Practical Applications
Various Spoken Interactions: Phone calls, shop transactions, interviews, meetings, informal talks
Descriptive Labels for Discourse: Different from conventional grammar, complement each other
Focus on Language Teaching: Grammatical, lexical, and phonological forms
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The scope of D.A.
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D.A. also covers
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written interactions that are present in our daily activities and that a person engages in throughout their life.
the study of various types of written texts found in different genres of written documents that are part of our daily lives
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