Discourse Analysis
Written By juli iskandar
1. Discourse is a
continuous stretch of (especially spoken) language larger than a sentence,
often constituting a coherent unit such as a sermon, argument, joke, or
narrative.
2. Discourse is
ways of constituting knowledge, together with the social practices, forms
of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and
relations between them. Discourses are more than ways of thinking and producing
meaning. They constitute the 'nature' of the body, unconscious and conscious
mind and emotional life of the subjects they seek to govern (Weedon, 1987, p.
108).
3. Discourse is a form of power that
circulates in the social field and can attach to strategies of domination as
well as those of resistance ( Diamond and Quinby, 1988, p. 185).
4. Crystal (1992:25) discourse is a
continuous stretch of (especially spoken) language larger than a sentence,
often constituting a coherent unit such as a sermon, argument, joke, or
narrative.
5. Frances Henry and Carol Tator Discourse is
the way in which language is used socially to
convey broad historical meanings. Itis language
identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is
using it and under what conditions. Language can
never be 'neutral' because it bridges our personal
and social worlds.
7. The definition of analysis is the process of breaking
down a something into its parts to learn what they do and how they relate to
one another.
8. Analysis is the process of
breaking a complex
topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a
better understanding of it
9. Analysis is this
process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its
essential features and their relations the grammatical analysis of a sentence.
10. Discourse analysis
is one way to engage in a very important human task. The task is this: to think
more deeply about the meanings we give people's words so as to make ourselves
better, more humane people and the world a better, more humane place" (J.
P. Gee, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, 2005). (blackred/Getty
Images)
11. Discourse is
generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and
habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically
located meanings.
12. Discourse analysis, as an approach to studying psychological
phenomena, developed out of the ‘turn to language’ in social psychology in the
1970s and 1980s and the emergence of social constructionism.
13. Discourse analysis is a
broad and diverse field, including a variety of approaches to the study of
language, which derive from different scientific disciplines and utilize
various analytical practices
Source : (Wetherell, Taylor,
& Yates, 2001ab).
14. Discourse is the creation
and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the
sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a
single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term
discourse applies to both spoken and written language, in fact to any sample of
language used for any purpose.
14. Discourse analysis
involves the study of both text and context. (according to schiffrin)
Source : (Laura Alba-Juez,
perspective on Discourse Analysis: Theory and practice, 2009:8)
15. Discourse analysis
is the study of how language is actually used and its effects on the speakers.
Source : (Lidia Tanaka, Gender,
language, and Culture: A Study of Japanise Television Interview Discourse,
2004:3)
