Week 1: Introduction
"Discourse is the way in which language is used socially to convey broad historical meanings. It is language identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using it and under what conditions. Language can never be 'neutral' because it bridges our personal and social worlds," (Henry and Tator 2002).
Discourse analysis is a research method for studying written or spoken language in relation to its social context. It aims to understand how language is used in real life situations. When you do discourse analysis, you might focus on the purposes and effects of different types of language.
Discourse studies look at the form and function of language in conversation beyond its small grammatical pieces such as phonemes and morphemes. This field of study, which Dutch linguist Teun van Dijk is largely responsible for developing, is interested in how larger units of language—including lexemes, syntax, and context—contribute meaning to conversations.
This section offers an introduction to discourse and discourse analysis.
- Week 1: Introduction
- Week 2: Approaches to DA
- Week 3: Forms n Functions of Discourse
- Week 4: The Role of Context in Interpretation
- Week 5: Topic and Representation of Discourse Content
- Week 6: Staging and the Representation of Discourse Structure
- Week 7: Information Structure
- Week 8: The Nature of Reference in Text and Discourse
- Week 9: Coherence in the Interpretation of Discourse
- Week 10: Conversational Analysis
- Week 11: Critical Discourse Analysis
- Week 12: CDA - Approaches n Framework
- Week 13: Agenda, Principles and Aims
- Week 14: Language n Ideology
- Week 15: Discourse, Gender n Identity
- Week 16: Multimodal Discourse Analysis
- Reference Books
- Chapters 17
- Department English
- Teacher
Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
