1. discourse analysis is one way to engage in a very important
human task. The task is this: to think more deeply about the meanings we give
people's words so as to make ourselves better, more humane people and the world
a better, more humane place" (J. P. Gee, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, 2005). (blackred/Getty Images)
2.
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.
3. Simple definition of Discourse the use of words to exchange
thoughts and ideas or a long talk or piece of writing about a subject.
4.
Discourse Definition foucault
presents possibly the best definition of discourse. He says, “Systems of
thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, and courses of action, beliefs and
practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which
they speak.”
Source : http://literarydevices.net/discourse/
5.
Discourse
analysis is 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.
Source
: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/discourse-analysis-what-speakers-do-conversation
6. The definition of analysis is the
process of breaking down a something into its parts to learn what they do and
how they relate to one another.
Source : http://www.yourdictionary.com/analysis
7.
Discourse analysis, as an approach to studying psychological phenomena,
developed out of the ‘turn to language’ in social psychology in the 1970s and
1980s and the emergence of social constructionism.
Source : Eugenie Georgaca & Evrinomy
Avdi
8.
Discourse analysis is a broad and diverse field, including a variety of
approaches to the study of language, which derive from different scientific
disciplines and utilize various analytical practices
Source : (Wetherell, Taylor, & Yates,
2001ab).
9. Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term
for a number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or
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.
10. discourse analysis is defined as (a)
concerned with language use beyond the boundaries of a
sentence/utterance, (b) concerned with the interrelationships between language
and society and (c) as concerned with the interactive or dialogic properties of
everyday communication.
11. Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments
of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language
which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning
is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and
written language, in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose.
12. Definition
of discourse since its
introduction to modern science the term ‚discourse’ has taken various,
sometimes very broad, meanings. In order to specify which of the numerous
senses is analyzed in the following dissertation it has to be defined.
Originally the word ‚discourse’ comes from Latin ‚discursus‚ which
denoted ‚conversation, speech’. Thus understood, however, discourse refers to
too wide an area of human life, therefore only discourse from the vantage point
of linguistics, and especially applied linguistics, is explained here.
13. Discourse
analysis involves the study of both text and context. (according to schiffrin)
Source : (Laura
Alba-Juez, perspective on Discourse Analysis: Theory and practice, 2009:8)
14.
Discourse analysis is the study
of how language is actually used and its effects on the speakers.
Source : (Lidia Tanaka, Gender, language, and Culture: A Study of Japanise Television
Interview
Discourse, 2004:3)
15.
In this chapter we present Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse
theory (sometimes abbreviated to discourse theory). We draw mainly on their
principal work, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), supplementing this with
a number of texts that Laclau has written alone. Discourse theory aims at an
understanding of the social as a discursive construction whereby, in principle,
all social phenomena can be analysed using discourse analytical tools.
Source : Laclau and mouffe’s discourse analysis
16. 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. Michel Foucault's early writings ('The Order of Discourse', 1971; The
Archaeology of Krlowledge, 1972)
Source : https://faculty.washington.edu/mlg/courses/definitions/discourse.html
My conclusion analyzing
a discourse shaped article or speech. discourse analysis is divided into two,
namely conversation and writing.
