This is all related of beyond a
sentence (morphology, syntax,
pragmatics, etc.) What is the
language in use (context). And
how discourse can include
social practices that are not
liguistic things (technological
devices, or what are people
wearing.)
Discourse is a
larger system of
thought that go on
within a particular
historical location.
Types
FORMAL LINGUISTIC
(sociolinguistics)
Principal sources are
written or oral
language and text
microanalysis of
linguistic, grammatical,
and semantic uses and
meanings of text
EMPIRICAL
*Conversation
analysis *Genre
analysis
Samples of written or oral
language and texts; and
data ot the uses of the text
in social settings -
microanalysis and
macroanalysis of the way
in which language and/or
texts construct social
practices
CRITICAL
(Foucauldian
analysis)
Samples of written or oral
language/texts; and data on the
uses of the text in social
settings: and data on the
institutions and individuals who
produce and are produced by
language texts - macroanalysis
of how discourses (in many
forms) construct what is
possible for individuals and
institutions to think and to say
Why is Discourse
analysis important for
teachers of English
becuase it provides insight
into the forms and
mechanisms of human
communicacion and verbal
interaction