Discourse analysis

About: Discourse analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 515384 citations. The topic is also known as: DA & discourse studies.

Bundles in academic discourse

Abstract: Automated, frequency-driven approaches to identifying commonly used word combinations have become an important aspect of academic discourse analysis and English for academic purposes (EAP) teaching during the last 10 years. Referred to as clusters, chunks, or bundles, these sequences are certainly formulaic, but in the sense that they are simply extended collocations that appear more frequently than expected by chance, helping to shape meanings in specific contexts and contributing to our sense of coherence in a text. More recently, work has extended to “concgrams,” or noncontiguous word groupings where there is lexical and positional variation. Together, these lexical patterns are pervasive in academic language use and a key component of fluent linguistic production, marking out novice and expert use in a range of genres. This article discusses the emerging research which demonstrates the importance of formulaic language in both academic speech and writing and the extent to which it varies in frequency, form, and function by mode, discipline, and genre.

Discursive psychology in practice

Abstract: Introduction - Rom Harr[ac]e and Peter Stearns Psychology as Discourse Analysis PART ONE: DISMANTLING THE INNER/OUTER DISTINCTION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION, MEMORY AND EXOTIC COGNITIVE STATES Remembering - Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter Emotion - Peter Stearns Constructing Divinity - Nancy C Much and Manamohan Mahapatra PART TWO: COGNITION IN PUBLIC: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION AND ACTION Attribution - Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter Agentive Discourse - Rom Harr[ac]e Decision-Making - Donal Carbaugh PART THREE: THE LANGUAGE GAME OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Language Development - Christina Erneling PART FOUR: SOME USES OF TRADITIONAL METHODS Emotions and Discursive Norms - Muriel Egerton Pictorial Discourse and Learning - Sandra L Calvert

Metaphor and discourse

Abstract: The contributors to Metaphor and Discourse present a collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background. Discourse scholars have for a long time been concerned with the methodological difficulties of identifying, annotating, and analysing metaphors, as well as with the complex relations between the embodiment of metaphorical thought on the one hand and the socio-cultural grounding of metaphorical communication on the other. A substantial body of work has grown out of these concerns over the last two decades. The present book provides a state-of-the-art overview of this lively research field, and furthermore contributes to debates in Cognitive Linguistics (and beyond) regarding tensions between conceptualist idealizations and empirically observable variation. A state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective

A Model of Discourse in Action

Abstract: In the last fifteen years or so a number of varied strands of research have been dubbed 'discourse analysis': speech act orientated studies of conversational coherence (e.g. Coulthard and Montgomery, 1981); so called 'discourse processes' work on story grammars and the like (e.g. van Dijk and Kintch, 1983); the 'Continental' discourse analysis of Foucault (e.g. 1971), which has been concerned to show the way different cultural entities are constituted discursively as well as the historical development of that constitution; and finally specific developments within the sociology of science which arose in part as a consequence of methodological debates on the role of discourse in research methods (e.g. Gilbert and Mulkay, 1984). The approach we have developed (Edwards and Potter, 1992; Potter and Wetherell, 1987; Wetherell and Potter, 1988) draws on important features of both the Continental and the sociology of science work; although it is also strongly influenced by developments in conversation analysis (e.g. Atkinson and Heritage, 1984) and rhetoric (e.g. Billig, 1987). It also emphasises the centrality of constructionist processes (Gergen, 1985); and this is a facet of discourse analysis we will develop further in the current article.

Arguing development policy : frames and discourses

Abstract: Introduction - discourse analysis and policy discourse, Des gasper and Raymond Apthorpe reading development policy and policy analysis - on framing, numbing, numbering and coding, Raymond Apthorpe analyzing policy arguments, Des Gasper re-reading "mountainous", "isolated", "inaccessible" and "small" - the case of Bhutan, Adam Pain methodological nationalism and the misunderstinding of East Asian industrialization, Charles Gore reading Americans on democracy in Africa - from the CIA to "good governance", David Moore essentialism in and about development discourse, Des Gasper.