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Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis examines written or spoken language in its social context to understand how language is used in everyday situations. It analyzes how sentences combine to form texts and whether a text makes sense within its surrounding context. Discourse analysis is a broader term than genre analysis, which focuses on distinguishing features of different text types. Cohesion refers to grammatical and lexical links within a text, while coherence is the interconnectedness between sentences that gives a text its semantic structure and meaning.

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Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

Discourse analysis examines written or spoken language in its social context to understand how language is used in everyday situations. It analyzes how sentences combine to form texts and whether a text makes sense within its surrounding context. Discourse analysis is a broader term than genre analysis, which focuses on distinguishing features of different text types. Cohesion refers to grammatical and lexical links within a text, while coherence is the interconnectedness between sentences that gives a text its semantic structure and meaning.

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Stylistics and Discourse Analysis

1. What is discourse analysis?


-Discourse analysis is a form of inquiry that examines written or spoken language relation to its social environment. Its
goal is to learn how language is utilized I everyday settings. Discourse analysis is the study of social life via examination
of language in its broadcast sense (including) face to face communication, nonverbal interaction, pictures, symbols, and
documents). It provides method for studying meaning in conversation and culture.

-Discourse analysis is about how sentences combine to form text. It observes whether a text makes sense or not. Text
that makes sense should have unity with context surrounding it. The context can be other discourses (text), intention
with the writer or speaker, setting, time, place, and other aspects of communicative context.

2. What is the difference between discourse analysis and genre analysis?


-Discourse analysis of both the global (umbrella) term for the text analysis and, at the applied level, an actual and
specific method if analysis. Whereas, genre analysis is focused on the distinguishing features of different texts and
especially useful in looking at both written and spoken texts in all areas of ESP.

3. Differentiate cohesion and coherence in relation to discourse analysis.

-Cohesion is the use of language forms to indicate semantic relations between elements in a discourse. It is
grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. It can be defined as the links that hold a text
together and give it meaning. Cohesion in English specifies five major classes of cohesive ties, nineteen subclasses,
and numerous sub-subclasses. There are two main types of cohesion: grammatical, referring to the structural
content, a lexical, referring to the language content of the piece.

-Coherence is grammatical and semantic interconnectedness between sentences that form a text. It
is the semantic structure, not its formal meaning, which create coherence. Coherency is a condition where
sentences in a text hang together. It can occur in relation of sentences that immediately follow each other.
Coherency grammatically arises when a text contains transition signals or when it possesses consistent pronoun.

4. Give an example of discourse analysis

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