TEXT & DISCOURSE

Student: Natalia Cuevas Pereira.

Teacher: Hector Vega.
WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?

The discourse analysis is committed to an investigation

of what that language in used for.

Funcional approach
Transactional Content
interactional Social relations
and personal
attitudes.
 LINGUISTIC FORMS
AND
FUNCTIONS
Manner of production

Written language
Spoken language the writer may look over, check
paralinguistic features his progress without pressure
Permanent
it can be modify to make it
more acceptable to the
hearer.
Transitory
TEXT, DISCOURSE, DISCOURS

Text
product
gramatical cohesion
text is written
last in time
meaning is not found in text
 Discourse
process
coherence and cohesion
discourse is spoken and written
in the moment
context (time, place, participant)
DIFFERENCE IN FORM BETWEEN
WRITTEN AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE
Spoken language is not so organized as Written language
Spoken language has more interactive markers and planning
fillers
The syntax in the Spoken language is more structured than the
Written language
The Written language has a more extensive set of metalinguistic
markers (such as connectors) than the Spoken language.
Written language is generally structured in Subject-Predicate form
and Spoken language is common to find Topic-comment structure
GRAMMARIAN V/S DISCOURSE
ANALYST
Grammarian Discourse analyst
focus the information into a
takes extended extracts and
specific part of the data, a single
On data sentence or a couple of them to show
based on the linguistic output
from others analysts
features about the language studied
produce a set of rules with 100% present regularities, which
fidelity required to accomplish theirare based on the frequency with
Rules/ data. Those rules prevent thewhich a particular linguistic
Regularities presence of possible mistakes in theirfeature occurs under certain
sentences. conditions in his discourse data.
the regularities which discourse
not generally take account of thisanalyst describes normally
Product/ expressed in dynamic not static
since data is not connected toterms, likely to contain evidence
Process behaviour. of the behaviour element

find necessary to know why

construct the context to knowpeople are using the language
On context the best acceptability of it in theand what they are doing with it in
sentence context, in order to analyse the
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Brown, G., & Yule, G. (1983).Discourse analysis. Cambridge

University Press.
Paltridge, B. (2012).Discourse analysis: An introduction.
Bloomsbury Publishing.