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Approaches to DA

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Understanding a language may lead to formalist and functionalist views of language. One can’t actually separate form from function in the study of any language. They may be like the two sides of a single coin.

Linguists use several different approaches in order to understand or construe language. Those approaches, as Schiffrin (1994) explains, are Speech Act Theory, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis and Variation Analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

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November 8th, 2010 at 12:39 am

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Approaches to Discourse Analysis

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This writing provides a pdf file containing a general discussion on approaches to discourse analysis contained in power point.

The discussion only touches the general view on approaches to discourse analysis and the instruments which could be used to explain the phenomena in language use as provided in some data.

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