DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS
Lecture 1
Introduction /Discourse Analysis
defined
, Discourse Analysis course
Textbooks:
1. Brown, G. & Yule, G. (1983). Discourse
Analysis. Cambridge: CUP;
2. Coulthard, M. (1985). An Introduction to
Discourse Analysis. London: Longman.
Grading:
Attendance 10
Midterm 40
Final examination 50
, 1. INTRODUCTION
The course - meant to
provide the attendees with
the basic knowledge of the
domain of Discourse Analysis
(DA), a branch of linguistics
that is dedicated to studying
the linguistic unit known as
discourse.
, INTRODUCTION
Just as phonology studies
phonemes, morphology studies
morphemes, discourse analysis is
interested in the discourse.
This introductory remark would
call for a more detailed
explanation of the term discourse.