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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)