Discourse Analysis - Topics of Interest

Topics of Interest

Topics of discourse analysis include:

  • The various levels or dimensions of discourse, such as sounds (intonation, etc.), gestures, syntax, the lexicon, style, rhetoric, meanings, speech acts, moves, strategies, turns, and other aspects of interaction
  • Genres of discourse (various types of discourse in politics, the media, education, science, business, etc.)
  • The relations between discourse and the emergence of syntactic structure
  • The relations between text (discourse) and context
  • The relations between discourse and power
  • The relations between discourse and interaction
  • The relations between discourse and cognition and memory

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