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Discourse Analysis: by Fariha Ali

Discourse analysis is the study of linguistic relations and structures in discourses. It involves a detailed study of conversations and texts, examining language beyond the sentence level. Discourse analysis is needed because language is ambiguous and situated within relationships, history, and other language uses. Analyzing discourse can help understand people's intentions beyond their words and find meanings hidden consciously or unconsciously. Discourse shapes realities through word choice, relationship construction, and ideology promotion in texts. Approaches to discourse analysis include formal analysis of rules/conventions, functional analysis of language use, and social analysis of power structures and identity construction.

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Discourse Analysis: by Fariha Ali

Discourse analysis is the study of linguistic relations and structures in discourses. It involves a detailed study of conversations and texts, examining language beyond the sentence level. Discourse analysis is needed because language is ambiguous and situated within relationships, history, and other language uses. Analyzing discourse can help understand people's intentions beyond their words and find meanings hidden consciously or unconsciously. Discourse shapes realities through word choice, relationship construction, and ideology promotion in texts. Approaches to discourse analysis include formal analysis of rules/conventions, functional analysis of language use, and social analysis of power structures and identity construction.

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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

By Fariha Ali
Discussions
 What is discourse, analysis and discourse
analysis
 Why it is done
 How is it related to literature
 What things can affect discourse
 Discourse and ideology
 Discourse and text
 Difference between text analysis and
discourse analysis
 Approaches to Discourse anlysis
What is discourse

 The use of words to exchange


thoughts and ideas.
What is Analysis

 Analysis is a careful study of


something to learn about its parts,
what they do ,how they are related to
each other.
Discourse Analysis

 The study of linguistic relations and


structures in discourses
 It is a detailed study of conversations
and/or texts
 It is also defined as language beyond
the sentence
Why we need discourse
analysis

 Ambiguous nature of language


Why it is ambiguous
 Language is situated

 Within relationships

 Within history

 In relation to other language


As a result of ambiguous
nature of language
 We become immune to misunderstandings
 We engage in the discourse analysis all the time
 We try to know something beyond the words
 Maybe intentions, motives, truths etc
 And this also depends on our own perspectives
 As it is said we only see what we want to see it
How discourse analysis helps?

 Language is not used to deceive but


its rather naturally ambiguous and
dubious
 It helps to better understand people
and words
 Find realities
 Meanings within what people hide
consciously or unconsciously
Discourse and literature

 We deal with texts and their textures


 And texts and textures again are full of
ambiguities
 Because texts are structured and they
fulfill certain social functions.
 By creating versions of realities
How realities are created
 By word choice
 By constructing certain relationships
 By reinforcing larger systems of beliefs and
knowledge
 With the help of frozen theories
 Hence texts do not represent realities they
construct realities
 THUS IDEOLOGIES ARE PROMOTED THROUGH
TEXTS

TEXT’S INTENTION

 We can safely say that the way texts


are put together is closely related to
what text is trying to get done
APPROACHES TO CDA

 Formal: rules and conventions


 Functional: how people use language
 Social: how language is used to
construct social identities
SOCIAL APPROACH

 Highlights role of a power structure,


dominance and inequality operated in
a society
 Its purpose is,
 It somehow affects us, disturbs us or
makes us question something,
Why do we study Discourse
Analysis?
 As linguists, to find out how language works, to
improve our understanding of an important kind of human activity
 As educators, to find out how good texts work, so
that we can focus on teaching our students these
writing/speaking strategies.
 As critical analysts, to discover meanings in the
text which are not obvious on the surface (e.g.,
analysing a politician’s speech to see their
preconceptions).
How text analysis and
discourse analysis differ?
 Text is defined as being a physical product
 Whereas discourse is viewed as a process
 Meaning can be found in text whereas in
discourse meaning is derived through
reader’s interaction with the text
 Text is made up of sentences , discourse
uses sentences
 Text analysis deals with cohesion, discourse
analysis investigates coherence
REFERENCES
 http://faculty.mu.edu.sa/public/uploads/1422
845667.1527DISCOURSE_ANALYSIS-
Copy.pdf
 And etc.

THANK YOU :)

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