Week 3: Forms n Functions of Discourse
A useful distinction in grammar is that of form and function. Grammatical form is concerned with the description of linguistic units in terms of what they are, and grammatical function is concerned with the description of what these linguistic units do. Note that we use capital letters at the beginning of function labels.
Understanding the way that form and function relate to one another has important implications for text production and comprehension, and enables students to more accurately discuss how grammatical structure relates to meaning.
This section covers the following sub-topics:
- Linguistic forms and functions
- Transactional Vs. Interactional View
- Sentence and utterance
- Product Vs. Process Approach
- Text, Context, Genre and Discourse analysis
Course Material
- 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
