What is Discourse analysis?
'''Discourse analysis''' is a subject which studies a [[text]] or a [[conversation]]. This is a subject in [[linguistics]] which does not study sentences, like in [[syntax]], but the entire text or conversation. The text or conversation is known as discourse. Discourse analyst prefer to use real life discourse in their studies, rather than invented sentences like in [[traditional linguistics]]. This way of studying real life discourse is called [[corpus linguistics]]. Discourse analysis is related to [[text linguistics]]. However, text linguistics studies how discourse is structured so that they are connected (how sentences are joined to each other). Discourse analysis studies this, and also how the discourse is connected to the context. This context includes who the people talking or writing are, the social and cultural context. Also, it studies the way [[mode(linguistics|mode]], which is the way the language is represented (is it a letter, speech, email, Internat chat?), influences discourse. Discourse analysis is also interested in the [[genre]] (topic) of the discourse. Discourse analysis is studied not only in linguistics, but also in [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[psychology]], [[communication studies]] and [[translation studies]]. == Other websites == * [http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/docs/soas.pdf Daniel L. Everett, statement concerning James Loriot, p.&nbsp;9] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217104207/http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/dlevere/docs/soas.pdf |date=2008-12-17 }} * [http://www.thereferentialprocess.org/dictionary-measures-and-computer-programs/the-discourse-attributes-analysis-program-daap The Discourse Attributes Analysis Program and Measures of the Referential Process] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728101501/http://www.thereferentialprocess.org/dictionary-measures-and-computer-programs/the-discourse-attributes-analysis-program-daap |date=2011-07-28 }}. * [http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-fields-discourse.cfm Linguistic Society of America: ''Discourse A