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DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

E. Aliyeva

Abstract

The paper aims to analyze discourse as the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language, which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language, in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein successive sentences or utterances hang together is discourse. Discourse cannot be confined to sentential boundaries. It is something that goes beyond the limits of sentence. In another words discourse is ‘any coherent succession of sentences, spoken or written’. The links between sentences in connected discourse are as much important as the links between clauses in a sentence. Discourse – defined as language use in everyday text and talk – is a dynamic form of social practice, which constructs the social world, individual selves and identity. People use discourse rhetorically in order to accomplish forms of social action in particular contexts of interaction. Language use is, in this sense, ‘occasioned’. The focus of analysis, then, is not on the linguistic organization of text and talk as in critical discourse analysis but on the rhetorical organization of text and talk.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.6/S14.094

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