Discourse Analysis

Approaches to DA

Discourse

Discourse analysis

Beyond the sentence

Language use

Social practice

Discourse

Spoken Language

Text

Written Language

Utterance

Modern Linguistics

Communicative event

Cohesion

Coherence

Acceptability

Intentionality

Informativity

situationality

Intertextuality

Text-internal

Text Linguistics (TL)

Formal Approach

Languague

Mental Phenomenon

Constitute

Text

Text-external

Constitute

Context

Discourse Analysis (DA)

Functional Approach

Language

Social phenomenon

Includes

TL

Studies

Text

Context

Multidisciplinary

Current Aim

Describe Language

Formal approach

Discourse

Unit of language

Harris (1951)

Levels

Criticized

Functional approach

Discourse

Language use

Purposes/functions

Social

Cultural

Contextual content

Propositional content

Formal - Functional

Integrated

"Utterances"

Linguistic content

Sign language

Dramatization

Bodily lexis

Discourse analysis

System

In use

Topic/activity

Broader contexts

USE

DO

Analyse

Intentions

Interpretations

Functional analysis