Name: ‫عمر سطام العتيبي‬

Professor: ‫د عبدالفتاح مفتاح‬

Subject: Discourse Analysis
Date: 1/25/2024
Assignment: No. 1: Different views on Discourse Analysis (page 6)

Different views on Discourse Analysis

1) Social Science Researchers view:

They Argue that all their work is concerned with the analysis of discourse

2) Mills view:
Throughout history discourse analysis has not had a single, fixed definition.

3) Fairclough’s view:
Fairclough identifies two main types of discourse analysis: Textually oriented and
Socially Oriented and he considers both to be “Discourse Analysis”

4) Cameron and Kulick’s view:

They have a similar meaning or definition to Fairclough’s view

5) David Crystals view:

He analyzed Barak Obama’s victory speech in a textually oriented discourse
analysis
6) Higgins view: He analyzed Obama’s speech in a Socially oriented discourse
analysis