Abstract: People often wonder what discourse analysis is and what the field of study includes. As a newer field, discourse analysis is still determining its own boundaries. It is different from traditional linguistics in several ways – it uses natural data for analysis, and it deals with utterances, as opposed to sentences. If you spend time observing everyday talk, you will notice that these utterances rarely look like those grammatical sentences seen in the grammar books and often described in linguistic research about syntax and grammar. In everyday interaction, people do not always use complete "sentences," they leave out information, they add meaning with their voice, or their faces, and they leave their comments unfinished. Yet, we still understand each other. An utterance, then, is the real-life expression of people's thoughts, ideas, and feelings.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-02-12
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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