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by Guillermo Orias 5 months ago

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Discourse Analysis

The provided text discusses various approaches to discourse analysis, emphasizing the significance of both formal and functional perspectives. It highlights the role of language as a social phenomenon and the importance of examining utterances and bodily lexis to understand linguistic content and dramatization.

Discourse Analysis

Functional analysis

Discourse analysis

Analyse

Interpretations
Intentions

DO

USE

System

In use
Topic/activity

Broader contexts

Functional approach

Formal - Functional
Integrated

"Utterances"

Bodily lexis

Dramatization

Sign language

Linguistic content

Purposes/functions

Propositional content

Contextual content

Cultural

Social

Formal approach

Harris (1951)
Criticized
Levels
Unit of language

Text-external

Discourse Analysis (DA)

Current Aim
Describe Language
Multidisciplinary
Studies
Includes
TL
Functional Approach
Language

Social phenomenon

Context

Text-internal

Constitute

Text Linguistics (TL)

Formal Approach
Languague

Mental Phenomenon

Discourse Analysis

Text

Communicative event
Intertextuality
situationality
Informativity
Intentionality
Acceptability
Coherence
Cohesion
Utterance
Modern Linguistics
Written Language
Spoken Language

Approaches to DA

Social practice
Language use
Beyond the sentence
Discourse
Discourse analysis