Perspectives of language and discourse

Language as System

System or Structure

Formalist Framework

Linguistic expressions can be treated in abract

Voucabulary

'Sentence', 'noun', 'grammatical subject', etc.

Semantic representations

Units of structure

Language as Practice

Discourse, practice or communication

Formalist Paradigm

To take context into account

What is made known

What it said

Vocabulary

'Utterance', 'interpretation', 'message', 'context', etc.

It is seen as secondary 'language use'

Discourse Aspects

Language is seen as representational

A stretch of concrete, situated and connected verbal, spoken actions

Includes accompanying paralinguistics signals and embidding contexts

Competing views on discourse

Formalism

Monolinguism

The dominant paradigm in the language

It assumes individuals and societies to be analytical primes

It is the accepted mainstream epistemology of major traditions of the language science

Dialogism

It takes actions and interactions

Theory of human actions and activitie in cognitive and interactive contexts

Communication

Thought

Interaction

Linguistic practice

The theory of language structure

Defines various units of expression types with abstracts syntactic

Semantic representations

Monologism

It is a discourse in which the voices are not diferentiated in a narrative text

Monologue

It is a discourse type when only one person is

Speaker

Author

Dialogism

Expressing ideas or feelings in the form of dialogue

Dialogicality

It is the noun used to refer to certain properties

Dialogue

Cognition and communication

Dialogue

About any dyadic or polyadic interaction between individuals

Mutually co-present to each other

Interact through language