Chapter 11
Discourse analysis
Description reflection
Discourse analysis is a broad term for the
study of the ways in which language is
used in texts and contexts, or texts'
surrounding and defining discourse. Also
called discourse studies, discourse
analysis was developed in the 1970s as a
field of study. Discourse analysis has
been described as an interdisciplinary
study of discourse within linguistics,
though it has also been adopted (and
adapted) by researchers in numerous
other fields in the social sciences.
Theoretical perspectives and approaches
used in discourse analysis include the
following: applied linguistics, conversation
analysis, pragmatics, rhetoric, stylistics,
and text linguistics, among many others. In this chapter we understand
that discourse means that
when we speak of discourse
analysis, we are also "asking
not only about the rhetoric of
politics but also about the
rhetoric of history and
rhetoric," according to
"Analysis Of discourse and
rhetorical studies "by
Christopher Eisenhart and
Barbara Johnstone of popular
culture, not only from the
rhetoric of the public sphere,
but from the rhetoric on the
street, in the beauty salon or
online, not only from the
rhetoric of the Formal
argument but also the
rhetoric of personal identity.