Pretest Discourse Analysis

Part A

1.     Discourse Analysis is the area of linguistics that is concerned with how we build up meaning in the larger communicative rather than grammatical units; meaning in a text, paragraph, conversation, etc, rather than in a single sentence.

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3.     a.  GREGORY WARD AND BETTY J. BIRNER. Their work is Discourse and  Information Structure

b.  RUTH WODAK AND MARTIN REISIGL. Their work is Discourse and Racism

c. ROGER W. SHUY. His work is Discourse Analysis in the

    Legal Context

Part B

1.     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.

2.     Discursive psychology is an approach to social psychology that has developed a type of discourse analysis into explore the ways in which people’s selves, thoughts and emotions are formed and transformed through social interaction and to cast light on the role of these processes in social and cultural reproduction and change. Many discursive psychologists draw explicitly on post structuralist theory. Its main focus is not internal psychological conditions.

3.     Discursive practice addresses the processes by which cultural meanings are produced and understood. This approach offers a distinctive perspective on linguistic anthropology as well as cultural anthropology as a whole. It subsumes, but extends well beyond, the traditional field of linguistic anthropology and is central to contemporary cultural anthropology, especially its concern with ethnographic methods.