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ENG223 Discourse Analysis

4.0 Conclusion

Discourse Analysis is the approach to language that focuses on the use of discourse in society and the role context plays in the interpretation of discourse. Unlike earlier approaches before it, it examines naturally occurring texts, such as conversation and written texts. The goal is to bring out the salient discourse features in such texts. Though started by non-linguists, it has in recent times become a very popular approach in linguistic analysis. Its use is not only limited to linguists. Scholars in other


17 disciplines also find Discourse Analysis relevant, since discourse is often seen as asocial practice that exists in all facets of human endeavour.
5.0 Summary

Background issues on Discourse Analysis was our focus in this unit. We started by looking at what we mean by the term Discourse and the discipline Discourse Analysis Afterwards, we traced the origin of Discourse Analysis from its earliest times to Anthropologists and Sociologists, whose goal was just to look at how the society is organized through the use of discourse. Linguists later got involved in the practice. Lastly, we examined the earliest practices of Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis.
6.0. Tutor-marked Assignments

Identify the key figures in Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis and discuss in details the practices of ethnomethodologists and conversational analysts.
7.0 References/Further Reading

Brown, G. and Yule G. (1983) Discourse Analysis. Cambridge CUP
Johnstone, Barbara (2002) Discourse Analysis. Blackwel Publishers
Pustejovsky, James (2006) Language as Action Accessed from edu/
jamesp/classes/usem40a06/slides/DiscourseAnalysis.ppt – on January 2 2008.


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