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Understanding The Meaning of Discourse Analysis

The document discusses discourse analysis, which analyzes language and communication to uncover social, cultural, and power dynamics. It describes different types of discourse analysis and why it is conducted to better understand how language is used in real life and how it creates meaning and maintains social norms. Common examples of discourse are also listed.

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Understanding The Meaning of Discourse Analysis

The document discusses discourse analysis, which analyzes language and communication to uncover social, cultural, and power dynamics. It describes different types of discourse analysis and why it is conducted to better understand how language is used in real life and how it creates meaning and maintains social norms. Common examples of discourse are also listed.

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Understanding

the meaning of
Discourse
Analysis
Objective: To analize a methodological
approach that delves into the study of
language and communication to uncover
underlying social, cultural, and power
dynamics.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

DIFFERENT TYPES. STEP-BY-STEP CONDUCTING


INSTRUCTIONS. DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS.
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD (WRITTEN, SPOKEN, NON-
VERBAL.

VISUAL LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT.

DISCOURS
E LANGUAGE CAN IMPART MEANING.

ANALYSIS VOCABULARY, GRAMMAR, GESTURES, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS,


IMAGERY, LANGUAGE TECHNIQUES.
(DA)
MEANING. LANGUAGE USE WITHIN ITS SOCIAL CONTEXT.

SOCIAL NORMS, POLITICAL CLIMATE, TIME, PLACE,


INTENDED AUDIENCE, AND THE SPEAKERS´S SOCIO-
CULTURAL BACKGROUND.
WHY CONDUCT DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS?
TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD BETTER AND
HOW LANGUAGE IS USED IN REAL LIFE.

MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS.

CREATING MEANING AND MAINTAINING


CERTAIN SOCIAL NORMS AND COMMON
KNOWLEDGE.
WHEN TO • PERFECT METHOD.
USE • LANGUAGE AND BROADER SOCIAL ISSUES:
• LANGUAGE AND POWER
DISCOURS • LANGUAGE AND GENDER.

E • LANGUAGE AND INEQUALITY.


• LANGUAGE IN THE MEDIA.
ANALYSIS?
COMMON EXAMPLES OF
DISCOURSE.

CONVERSATIONS
NEWSPAPERS NOVELS.
.

SONG LYRICS. ADVERTS. SPEECHES.


DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

RESEARCH QUESTION. THE PURPOSE OF LANGUAGE VOCABULARY: E.G. GRAMMAR: E.G. TYPES PUNCTUATION: E.G.
STUDY. FEATURES: WORD CHOICE, OF SENTENCES, USE OF EXCLAMATION
JARGON, SPECIAL GRAMMATICAL VOICE, MARKS, CAPITAL
LEXICON. USE OF AFFIXES. LETTERS, ETC.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
• GENRE: IT IS A NEWSPAPER, SONG, NOVEL, ETC.
• NON VERBALS, e.g. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, BODY
LANGUAGE, PAUSES.
• PARALINGUISTIC FEATURES: e.g. TONE, PITCH,
INTONATION.
• PRAGMATICS: WHAT ARE THE EXTENDED OR
HIDDEN MEANINGS?
• CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS: USEFUL FOR
REVIEWING POWER RELATION IN SPOKEN
DISCOURSE.
IMAGES AND COLOUR: HOW
DO THEY ADD TO THE
MEANING OF THE
DISCOURSE?
DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
THE DISCOURSE AND THE
WIDER SOCIAL CONTEXT.
• TECHNICAL DETAILS OF LANGUAGE.

LANGUAGE • GRAMMAR, SYNTAX, PHONETICS,


PHONOLOGY, AND PROSODY.
IN USE • HIGHLY DESCRIPTIVE.

DISCOURSE • INDEPTH EXAMINATION OF LINGUISTICS


PROPERTIES.
ANALYSIS • (speech patterns of teenagers)
• NEOLOGISMS: a newly created Word.
TECHNICAL DETAILS.

IMPACT LANGUAGE

Sociopolitica RELATIONSHIP – LANGUAGE AND


SOCIETY.
l discourse
CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS.

SOCIAL PRACTICE- TO
INVESTIGATE IDEOLOGIES.
REFERENCE.
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-misconceptions-around-applied
-linguistics-ahmad-sameer

• https://es.slideshare.net/MuhammadAli1224/misconceptions-about-lin
guistics

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