Discourse Analysis

the quality of being meaningful and unified

language in use, for communication

Discourse analysis: the search for what gives discourse coherence

• True

• False

Syntactic errors: where the word endings (or other word parts) are wrong

• True

• False

errors: where the meaning is wrong

a process of eliminating the unique combination of circumstances in which language happens

• idealization

• ellipsis

• substitution

Discourse analysis data

• In context

• Idealized

• Observed

• Isolated sentence

the grammatical and/or lexical relationships between the different parts of a text

Contextual approaching: referring to facts inside language

• True

• False

stretches of language treated only formally