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Chapter 11 Discourse, discourse analysis, and discourse genres

From the book French theories on text and discourse

  • Dominique Maingueneau

Abstract

This paper questions the notion of discourse both in its particularities and its vagueness: it can be thought of as outside communication (“discourse structures our beliefs”) and on the other hand as referring to genres (“the discourses around publicity”). Having distinguished discourse from text (suchandsuch a text relates to political discourse), discourse from sentence (the former being a discourselevel matter), and discourse from language (according to the language/speech distinction), we examine the diversity of discourses. Finally, we look at two discourse regimes which do not fall under traditional textuality: the Internet and aphorizing utterances.

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