Knowra Discourse analysis Discourse analysis Discourse analysis studies language in use beyond isolated sentences, examining how texts and talk create meaning within social and institutional contexts.
Pragmatics : The study of how context shapes the interpretation of utterances. Discourse analysis draws on pragmatic accounts of how utterances mean more than their literal wording.
Turn-taking : The methods participants use to allocate and coordinate speaking turns in conversation. Its patterns reveal how speakers manage participation and conversational order.
Zellig Harris : An American linguist who introduced the term discourse analysis in a 1952 paper. His work established an early structural approach to analyzing connected language.
Institutional talk : Talk shaped by the goals, roles, and procedures of institutions such as courts or hospitals. Its specialized interaction patterns reveal how institutional roles are enacted through language.
Text linguistics : The study of linguistic properties that make texts coherent and interpretable. It often emphasizes textual structure, while discourse analysis also examines social use and context.
Conversation analysis : The empirical study of how participants organize talk-in-interaction. It offers detailed tools for tracing turn-taking, repair, and sequence in spoken discourse.
Adjacency pair : A pair of related turns, such as a question and its answer, produced in sequence. These paired actions show how one turn makes a particular next turn relevant.
Michel Foucault : A French philosopher and historian whose work examined discourse, knowledge, and power. His account made institutions and power central to influential approaches to discourse.
Political discourse : Language used to define political issues, justify policies, and mobilize support. Analysis traces how political actors frame events and establish competing interpretations.
Formal linguistics : The study of language structure through abstract systems and grammatical rules. Its focus on linguistic form contrasts with discourse analysis's attention to situated use.
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