2. FORM AND FUNCTION
Form : denotes how something looks, it is shape or
appearance and what the structure is.
Example : The new car is an NP
3. Function : The words we use
to make a sentences
grammatically correct.
Example:
Pronouns: Did I make a fool of my self?
Determiners: The old man is in the pink house.
Conjunctions: the woman and the man however they were happy.
Prepositions: at the corner we’ll meet.
Auxiliary verbs: He could not play with one single leg.
4. Form and Function has
to be separated from
discourse to get a clear
definition on it.
Speech act is considered to what the language is
doing or how the listener or reader is supposed to
react. Such entities are called speech acts.
5. The Scope of
Discourse
Analysis
Discourse Analysts are
equally interest in the
organization of written
interaction.
Able to evaluate our
teaching materials what
goes in to the classroom,
and the end products of our
teaching.
Spoken
Discourse: Models
of Analysis
The language we have
in discourse by having a
model Analysis
Conversation out of the
classroom.
Where roles are rigidly
defined and the
patterns of initiation.
6. Talk as social
activity
The social role that a
person complete the
way we talk.
Doctor, teachers,
etc.
Written Discourse
With the written
context, problems
associated with
spoken transcript are
absent.
In compare to the
speech discourse the
written text the
person has got more
chance to think about
what is being written.
7. Text and
Interpretation
• Marker of various kinds, i.e. The linguistic signals of semantic
and discourse functions.
• In English the-ed on the verbs is a marked pastness)
Larger
pattern in
text
• The clause-relational approach to text also concerns itself with
larger pattern with regularly pattern in text.
• First the sentences represents the situation, then complication
or problem and the third describe the solution of the problem.
Conclusion
• Discourse analysis is a vast subject area within linguistic,
encompassing as it does the analysis of spoken and written
language over and above concerns such as the structure of
sentences.
• For example: we have to considered the big question of
discourse of the social setting.
