Discourse analysis
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The objects of discourse analysis—discourse, writing, talk, conversation, communicative event, etc.—are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech acts or turns-at-talk. Contrary to much of traditional linguistics, discourse analysts not only study language use 'beyond the sentence boundary', but also prefer to analyze 'naturally occurring' language use, and not invented examples.
Discourse analysis has been taken up in a variety of social science disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, international relations and communication studies, each of which is subject to its own assumptions, dimensions of analysis, and methodologies.
See also
- Analysis of subjective logics
- Critical discourse analysis
- Dialogical analysis
- Discourse
- Essex School of discourse analysis
- Ethnolinguistics
- Foucauldian discourse analysis
- Linguistic anthropology
- Narrative analysis
- Pragmatics
- Rhetoric
- Sociolinguistics
- Stylistics (linguistics)
- Worldview