discourse analysis

1. 1. Text analysis is concerned with the study of written and spoken texts as language elements strung together in relationships with one another that can be defined. It is the study of the formal linguistic devices that distinguish a text from random sentences.

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Discourse analysis also studies language in use: written texts of all kinds, and spoken data from conversation to highly institutionalised forms of talk.

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Discourse analysis studies the relationship between language and the contexts in which it is used. It also studies the text-forming devices.

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Conversation analysis is much interested in analysing conversations where the emphasis is not upon building structural models but on the close observation of the behaviour of participants in talk and on patterns which recur over a wide range of natural data

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1.     Text analysis is concerned with the study of written and spoken texts as language elements strung together in relationships with one another that can be defined while  discourse analysis studies language in use: written texts of all kinds, and spoken data, from conversation to highly institutionalised forms of talk.

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2. Conversation analysis is concerned with analysing transactional conversations where the emphasis is on close observation of the behaviour of participants in talks.

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Coherence can be understood in two ways: cohesion and collocation

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4.    Traditionally, language analysis stopped at the sentence level.

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5. 5.     Speaking is redundant, transient whereas writing tends to avoid redundancy and be permanent.

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6.    Only endophoric reference is cohesive, and in the majority of cases it is cataphoric. 

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