Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
The term discourse analysis first entered general use as the title of a paper published by Zellig Harris in 1952, although that paper did not yet offer a systematic analysis of linguistic structures 'beyond the sentence level'.
As a new cross-discipline DA began to develop in the late 1960s and 1970s in most of the humanities and social sciences, more or less at the same time, and in relation with, other new (inter- or sub-) disciplines, such as semiotics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
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A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis - Article by Steven M. Hoenisch. Examines influence of Wittgenstein on Gricean pragamtics, and on Searle's speech act theory, to motivate Discourse Analysis.
Meta Description: [ A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis. An essay in discourse analysis by Steve Hoenisch. Criticism.Com contains other essays in discourse analysis and linguistics as well as in Wittgenstein, philosophy, Freud, Barthes, Dostoyevsky, Saussure, social science, Weber, Bakhtin, and psychoan... ]
Discourse Segmentation of Spoken Dialogue: An Empirical Approach - Determines the extent to which structured discourse segment boundaries can be extracted from annotated transcriptions of spontaneous, natural dialogues.
Meta Description: [ Discourse Segmentation of Spoken Dialogue: An Empirical Approach. Differences between human-to-human
telephone conversation and interactive voice response systems (IVRs) and
question-answer systems (QAs) ]
Discourse: Patterns of Complex Adaptation - The dynamics of conversation in a learning community as a special case of complex adaptive systems.
Interpretation and Indeterminancy in Discourse Analysis - Article by Steven Hoenisch.
Meta Description: [ Interpretation and Indeterminancy in Discourse Analysis, an essay in linguistics by Steve Hoenisch. Criticism.Com contains other essays in discourse analysis and linguistics as well as in social science, philosophy, Wittgenstein, Weber, Bakhtin, Freud, Barthes, Dostoyevsky, and psychoanalysis., C... ]
Social Significance Of Patterns Of Questioning In Classroom Discourse - Article by Sarah Hickman discussing what educators need to know about patterns of classroom discourse, to best appraise the needs of their students.
Trevor Pateman - Linguistics and the Critique of Domination - Offers a critique of East Anglia critical linguistics (Fowler, Hodge, Kress, Trew)
Meta Description: [ An extended critique of the East Anglia school of Critical Linguistics, represented in the two books Language and Control by Roger Fowler and others and Language and ideology by Gunther Kress and Roger Hodge ]
University of Gent - Towards a Discourse Analysis of Language Use on the Internet - Stef Slembrouck focuses on the proces of digitalisation and on implication on methods and topics of research.
What is meant by Discourse Analysis? - Introductory article by Stef Slembrouck. Mostly from a socio-linguistic perspective, but sensitive to philosophy of language.
Widening the Lens of Language and Gender Research: Integrating Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Practice Theory - The application of critical discourse analysis and cultural practice theory to the study of gender and language.
Meta Description: [ Kathryn Remlinger: Widening the Lens of Language and Gender Research. Linguistik online 1/99: Sprache und Geschlecht. ]
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Wittgenstein/Styles/Pedagogy - Article by Michael Peters and Nicholas Burbules, discussing the nature of philosophy as a discourse. The article begins with a discussion of the petition against Derrida's honorary degree at Cambridge.
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