DISCOURSE + CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS - Review

Define discourse

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Define discoure analysis

• the analysis of language that examines patterns of language across texts

• studies both spoken and written discourse

• emphasizes the language at and above the sentence level as they are influenced by co-text & sociological phenomena.

• emphasizes the impact of users, context and sociological on meaning

COHESION

• lexical

• grammatical

• the relation of textual world

• the way a text makes sense

• the sequencing of the configuration of the concepts

COHERENCE

• lexical

• grammatical

• the relation of textual world

• the way a text makes sense

• the sequencing of the configuration of the concepts

COHESION:

- formal linguistics features.

- Semantic relationships ....... sentences and ...... sentences.

- Determined ..... and ..... overt inter-sentential relationships.

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COHERENCE:

- very .... principle of interpretation of language in ....

- fewer ... linguistic features

- relationship deals with text as a ...

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COHERENCE:

• connectivity of the surface

• connectivity of underlying contents

COHESION:

• connectivity of the surface

• connectivity of underlying contents

2 KINDS OF COHESION

• Grammatical Cohesion

  (reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction)

• Lexical Cohesion

  (synonym, antonym, collocation, repetition/reiteration, association)

Some examples of substituion

• ones

  (These ones are new.)

• the same

  (I'll have the same.)

• do

  (I have wanted to do so for a long time.)

• X

  (Smith was the first person to leave. I was the second.)