discourse analysis

English

Noun

discourse analysis (usually uncountable, plural discourse analyses)

  1. (linguistics) Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
    • 2012, Brian Paltridge, quoting Phillips and Iorgenson, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 14:
      Discourse analysis is not just one approach, but a series of interdisciplinary approaches that can be used to explore many different social domains in many different types of studies. (Phillips and Iorgenson 2002: 1)

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