HUMAN COMMUNICATION

Introduction to Discourse Analysis

 HUMAN COMMUNICATION

 

■ Human communication fulfills many different goals at the personal and social levels. 

■ We communicate information, ideas, beliefs, emotions, and attitudes to one another in our daily interactions.

■ We construct and maintain our positions within various social contexts by employing appropriate language forms and performing speech activities to ensure solidarity, harmony, and cooperation or to express disagreement or displeasure when called for. 

■ We must combine knowledge of the target language with skills and strategies that enable us to use the language effectively and appropriately in various social and cultural contexts.

■ When language is used for communication, these areas are resources for creating and interpreting discourse in context, not language systems to be taught or learned out of context for their own sake.