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discourse analysis
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generic term for the analysis of social, language policy or historiographical discourse phenomena
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- semiology
- Part of
- linguistics
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- topic's main category
- Category:Discourse analysis
- studied by
- sociolinguistics
- short name
- DA
- Stack Exchange tag
- linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/discourse-analysis
- class of object(s) of occurrence
- discourse
- facet of
- literary studies
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Encyclopedic overview
Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event.
The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk. Contrary to much of traditional linguistics, discourse analysts not only study language use 'beyond the sentence boundary' but also prefer to analyze 'naturally occurring' language use, not invented examples. Text linguistics is a closely related field. The essential difference between discourse analysis and text linguistics is that discourse analysis aims at revealing socio-psychological characteristics of a person/persons rather than text structure.
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