Chapter 11.
DESCRIPTION
REFLECTIONS ON EACH TOPIC
This area is discourse studies, that are a general term for a number of
In the study of language, some of the most interesting observations are
made, not in terms of the components of language, but in terms of the
way language is used, even how pauses are used, as in comedian Jerry
approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or any
significant semiotic event.
And is important know , since The objects of discourse analysis (discourse,
Seinfeld’s commentary. We have already considered some of the
features of language in use when we discussed pragmatics in the
preceding chapter. We were, in effect, asking how it is that language-
users successfully interpret what other language-users intend to convey.
writing, conversation, communicative event)