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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Discourse Analysis at Glance

We always might ask what actually discourse analysis means..? and how we apply that discourse analysis  into our research..?. well today you will find the answer toward your anxiety dealing discourse analysis. continue to read this article then you will find the answer of your anxiety.


Discourse analysis is a new science that emerged in recent decades. Linguistic streams during this limited only to the matter of analysis sentence and only recently some linguists turned his attention to analyzing discourse. As many have done in research on news organizations during and after the 1960s, discourse analysis emphasizes the "how the ideological significance of news is part and parcel of the methods used to process news" (how significant ideological news and become part package methods used to process the media)
So, whether it's called discourse analysis? Discourse analysis is the study of structure in communication messages. More precisely, discourse analysis is the study of various functions (pragmatics) of language. We use language in a continuation or strands of discourse.
Discourse analysis was born from the realization that there are communication problems not limited to the use of sentences or sentence parts, functions and inhern called discourse (Littlejohn, 1996:84). In an effort to analyze the units of language larger than sentences, discourse analysis can not be separated from the application of the rules of the various branches of linguistics, as well as semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. 


In terms of analysis, characteristics and nature of the discourse it can be stated as follows:
  •  Discourse analysis discusses the rules of language use in society (rule of use - according to Widdowson)
  • Discourse analysis is an attempt to understand the meaning in the context of speech, text, and the situation (Firth)
  • Analysis of a series of narrative discourse meruapakan understanding through semantic interpretation (Beller)
  • Analysis of the discourse relating to the understanding of language in the act of speaking (what is said from what is done - according to Labov)
  • Analysis of Discourse is directed to the problem of language use in fungional (functional use of language - Coulthard)

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