discourse analysis

is a methodological approach aiming at disclosure through description.

discourse analysis aims at disclosure through description, not verification or explanation as traditional science. It seeks to uncover the meanings encoded or embedded in cultural artifacts, now conceptualized as texts or as visual culture, rather than high art or literature' (4 Ron Eyerman and Lisa McCormick 4).

is a mode of analysis that is concerned with systems of rules which make it possible for certain statements but not others to occur at particular times, places and institutional locations.

for Foucault, discourse analysis is not to be equated with linguistic analysis, nor discourse with language. DIscourse analysis is concerned. . . with specifying socio-historically variable discursive formations (sometimes referred to as 'discourses', systems of rules which make it possible for certain statements but not others to occur at particular times, places and institutional locations. (Fairclough 1992: 40).

is the analysis of language beyond the sentence.

Deborah Tannen defines discourse analysis as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'. This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology), parts of words (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of language as they flow together. . . A good speaker, conscious or unconsciously have skills in giving chance to their interlocutor when talking. The language they are using, that shows turn taking, discourse markers, and speech acts for example, has another wider meaning beyond the sentence itself.' (ne. . . )

discourse analysis, n.Definitions

discourse analysis