WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?

Introduction to Discourse Analysis

WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? 

■ Text linguistics, which focused on written texts from a variety of fields and genres.

 

 

■ Discourse analysis, which entailed a more cognitive and social perspective on language use and communication exchanges and which included spoken as well as written discourse.

■ Another important aspect of discourse analysis is that of application. 

 

 

■ It is also these different types of applied discourse analysis that have led to a general movement within language pedagogy, which moves from focus on grammar to concern with discourse and also moves away from language analysis, as the goal of language teaching, to the goal of teaching language for communication. 

 such as problem-solution or cause-effect. Coherence may also depend in part on patterns and strategies of text development that are very culture specific.