DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

DEFINITION OF DISCOURSE
&
REPRESENTATION OF EXPERIENCE
 GROUP 1

MEMBER :
KRISMELINDA
ROSSA M. SILITONGA
ANDRIYANI
ARI RAMADHANA
 Definition of discourse

A. Discourse
- Discourse is a meaning that is realized in text.

B. TEXT
- Text is any unit of language or linguistic form that is functional in context
Difference between Text and
Discourse
 Text as Semantic Unit

A text is a linguistic unit that is functional in content.

The terms linguistic unit:

a. Sound
b. Word

c. Phrase
d. Sentence

e. Clause
f. Paragraph
REPRESENTATION OF
EXPERIENCE
 Experience as Reality
Technically the functional of language to
represent experience is termed the experiential
function,as one component of the metafunction
as advocated by Halliday (2004)
• A clause is regarded as one unit of
experience,which constituted by three elements,
they are
1. the process,which is equivalent to activity or
verb in traditional grammar,
2. the participants,which are A persons or things
in the process and
3. the Circumtance,which is environment or
surronding of activity involving the participant
 Analysis
Operationally,in order to attain
the two the objectives of
discourse analysis,the following
A text or discourse is steps are taken in analyzing the
text experientially.
experientially analyzed
1.Separating the text into clauses
with reference to the 2. analyzing each clause in terms
three elements of of the experiential function
clause,namely the 3.Classifying elements of the
experiential function
process,participant,and
4. Discovering patterns of the
circumstance experiential function, i.e by
deviring the patterns of
process,participant,and
circumstance
5. evaluating the success of the
text by relating the text to its
(social) context.
 Analyzing clauses in terms of
experiential function
Each of the clauses in analyzed into the process,
Participant and circumstance.the embedded clause
is indicated by using double square brackets as
seen in clause.
 Classsifying the elements of
experiential functions
The analysis done in section reveals that the
text uses different types of process,participant and
circumstance. The occurrences are included in the
tables by which proportion of each component is
counted and converted into percentage.
Deriving patterns of experience

With reference to the classification of the

elements of experience ,particularly to the
dominant element used in the text as previously
done in the patterns of experience are derived.
Further, with reference to the patterns, the
meaning of the text is derived.the patters of
experience are as the following.
 Evaluating the success of the
text
The social context of the text covers the field
,tenor and mode. The field of the text is academic
matter in the sense that the text is about an
argument by academics that man and woman are
different. The tenor involves the writer of
academic text, which may be experts, lecturers and
event students