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Lesson 01 What Is Discourse Analysis

This document outlines a lesson plan on discourse analysis for a third year linguistics course. It introduces discourse analysis, distinguishing between discourse and text, and outlining textually and socially oriented views of discourse analysis. It also covers three types of context - situational, background knowledge, and co-textual context. Finally, it lists seven differences between spoken and written discourse, such as grammatical intricacy, lexical density, and spontaneity. Students are directed to additional readings that further explain discourse analysis.

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Lesson 01 What Is Discourse Analysis

This document outlines a lesson plan on discourse analysis for a third year linguistics course. It introduces discourse analysis, distinguishing between discourse and text, and outlining textually and socially oriented views of discourse analysis. It also covers three types of context - situational, background knowledge, and co-textual context. Finally, it lists seven differences between spoken and written discourse, such as grammatical intricacy, lexical density, and spontaneity. Students are directed to additional readings that further explain discourse analysis.

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Kasdi Merbah University - Ouargla

Faculty of Letters and Languages


Department of Letters and English Language
Course: Linguistics Instructor: Mr. BENCHEIKH. Y
Time Allotted: 90 minutes Level: 3rd Year LMD Academic Year: 2019/2020

Sixth Semester

Lesson 01 : What is Discourse Analysis ?

Note : This is JUST an outline. Please refer to the powerpoint presentation


(S6:Discourse Analysis for Third Year Students 2020 ) for further explanation.

Outline
1. What is Discourse Analysis ?
1.1 Discourse versus text

1.2 Different Views of Discourse Analysis

1.2.1 Textually-Oriented View

1.2.2 Socially-Oriented View

2. Types of Context
2.1 Situational Context

2.2 Background Knowledge Context

2.3 Co-textual Context

3. Diferences between Spoken and Written Discourse


3.1 Gramaratical intricacy and Spoken Discourse

3.2 Lexical Density in Spoken and Written Discourse

3.3 Nominalization in Spoken and Written Discourse

3.4 Explicitness in Spoken and Written Discourse

3.5 Spontaneous nature of Spoken Discourse

3.6 Contextualization in Spoken and Written Discourse

3.7 Repetition, Hestitation and Redundancy in Spoken Discourse

Required Readings :
1. Chapter 01 : What is Discourse Analysis (pp01-20) in Nunan,D (1993) Introducing
Discourse Analysis. England : Penguin Books
2. Chapter 01 : What is Discourse Analysis (pp01-22) in Paltridge, B (2006) Discourse
Analysis : An Introduction. New York :Continuum Discourse

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