Name : Putri Alia Reza

NIM : 41032122181056
Class : VI A
Subject : Discourse Analysis

1. What is Discourse Analysis?

 The definition of Discourse :

- Schiffrin et al (2003) noted that there are three main categories of Discourse
definition :
1. Anything beyond the sentence
The person who intrested in discourse or discourse analysis is called linguist.
2. Language in use (Empirical)
Applied linguist conversation analysis.
3. A broader range of social practice that includes nonlinguistic and nonspecific
instances of language
Critical discourse analysis is often done.

- Foucault’s sense of Discourse :

“Not just the language of an individual communication (which Foucault regards
as a “sample”), but the larger systems of thought within a particular historical
location that make certain things “thinkable” and “sayable” and regulating who
can say them.”

 The definitiom of Discourse Analysis :

- Gee breaks da, down into 2 basic approaches :
o Descriptive (largely linguistic)
 Looking at the actual language details and how language and their
grammars work together. It has a broad sense.
o Critical ( applied, political)
 more applied understanding of linguistic infromation and particularly
political bent.

 Approaches of Discourse Analysis

- According to Hodges and Colleagues (2008) there are three diffrent approaches to
Discourse Analysis :
1. Formal linguistic discourse analysis (such as sociolinguistics)
2. Empirical discourse analysis (such as conversation analysis, genre analysis)
3. Critical discouse analysis ( such as foucauldian analysis)