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What is discourse and discourse analysis
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Language always comes with-or-in other forms of mediums and components (sound, image, clothing) which changes and creates it’s meaning
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3 dimensions of “discourse”
- interaction (patterns of linguistic practice, e.g speech acts, discourse markers)
- knowledge (explicit & implicit, declarative & procedural)
- society (social roles, linguistic variation, language & power)
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Discourse Analysis differs from hermenuetics — it’s not interested in understanding the writer’s intention
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It is rather explaining a linguistic form in context — “Why this enumeration rather than another?” (order of things is important) — understanding historical conditions and relations of power which led to certain order
Digital Discourse Analysis
Corpora and Discourses
- Corporas are usually text files > you can get a statistically distributed information out of this