- Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings.
-the use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas
-a long talk or piece of writing about a subject
Definition analysis
- A systematic examination and evaluation of data or information, by breaking it into its component parts to uncover their interrelationships. Opposite of synthesis.
- An examination of data and facts to uncover and understand cause-effect relationships, thus providing basis for problem solving and decision making
- .the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it.
- a careful study of something to learn about its parts, what they do, and how they are related to each other .
- an explanation of the nature and meaning of something
- problems rather than solutions
- why rather than how
- discovery rather than invention
- critique rather than acceptance
- decomposition rather than recombination
Definition Discourse Analysis
- sometimes defined as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'. This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology), parts of words (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of language as they flow together.
- Discourse analysis is gradually becoming more established in family practice.
- Discourse analysis is the study of social life, understood through analysis of language in its widest sense (including face-to-face talk, non-verbal interaction, images, symbols and documents).
- Discourse analysis is a broad term for the study of the ways in which language is used in texts and contexts. Also called discourse studies.
