DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO ME People from different disciplines use the term "discourse analysis" for what they do, how they do it, or both. Even when It might appear that they have nothing in common, one way or another, they all involve studying language and its effects. So, could we say that discourse analysis is simply the study of language and its effects? For example, (Tannen, 1989: 6) suggests that "the name for the field 'discourse analysis' ... says nothing more or other than the term 'linguistics': the study of language". And this is exactly correct: discourse analysis is the study of language, in the everyday sense, in which most people use the term. What most people mean when they say "language" is talk, communication, and discourse. (In formal language study, both descriptive and prescriptive, the term "language" is often used differently, to refer to structures or rules that are thought to underlie talk.) Even if disco...
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