INTERPRETATION OF ‘DISCOURSE’ FROM ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Аннотация

Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language, in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein successive sentences or utterances hang together is discourse. Discourse analysis is the study of how language is used in texts. It looks at the ways in which people use language to communicate, and how this use of language affects the way that people interpret and understand what is being said.