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The document summarizes discourse analysis as the study of language use beyond the sentence level and within social contexts. It discusses what constitutes discourse, types of discourse analysis like turn-taking and speech acts, and approaches to discourse analysis. It also provides an example analysis of a study on bilingual students' mathematical communication and probability that examined language use during probability activities and interviews.

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Ed703 Discourse Analysis

The document summarizes discourse analysis as the study of language use beyond the sentence level and within social contexts. It discusses what constitutes discourse, types of discourse analysis like turn-taking and speech acts, and approaches to discourse analysis. It also provides an example analysis of a study on bilingual students' mathematical communication and probability that examined language use during probability activities and interviews.

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analysis

NIKA IGNACIO | RUBY JEAN GAMINO | ALYSSA BIANCA AGUILAR


TOPICS
01 WHAT IS DISCOURSE
Definition, Modality, and Codes

02 DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Definition, Types and Stages of Analysis

03 D.A. AS APPLIED TO RESEARCH


Approaches and theories

04 SAMPLE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN RESEARCH


Mathematics, Language, and Degree of Certainty
WHAT IS DISCOURSE?

• discourse = a conversation or text

• discourse = collection of texts or conversations

• discourse = a shared way of talking or creating texts (code)

• discourses = codes, languages, ways of speaking of a topic


WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS?
Discourse analysis is sometimes defined as the analysis of
language 'beyond the sentence'. This contrasts with types
of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which are
chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of
smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and
phonology), parts of words (morphology), meaning
(semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax).
Discourse analysts study larger chunks of language as
they flow together.

It considers the larger discourse context in order to underst


and how it affects the meaning of the
sentence
THUS…
• discourse analysis focuses on the use of language within
a social context
• discourse analysis's key emphasis is on the use of langu
age in social context. Language in this case refers to eith
er text or talk, and context refers to the social situation or
forum in which the text or talk occurs.
• is the approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign langu
age use, or any significant semiotic event.
"Analysis of discourse is like riding a
bicycle compared to conducting
experiments or analysing survey data
which resemble baking cakes from a
recipe. There is no obvious parallel
to well-controlled experimental
design and test of statistical
significance.“ …
"it is not a case of stating first you do
this and then you do that. The skills
required are developed as one tries
to make sense of transcripts and
identify the organizational features
of documents.“…(p. 169)

from Potter and Wetherell (1988)


Discourse and Social Psychology
TYPES OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

DISCOURSE AND FRAMES


'Reframing' is a way to talk about going back and
re-interpreting the meaning of the first sentence

 What activity are speakers engaged in when they say this?


 What do they think they are doing by talking in this way at this
time?
TYPES OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

TURN-TAKING
It is when discourse analysts who study conversation note th
at speakers have systems for determining when one person'
s turn is over and the next person's turn begins.
Study of response or feedback, either in verbal or in action.

Examples:
'mhm', 'uhuh', and 'yeah'.
Frequent nodding of head
Eyecontact
TYPES OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

DISCOURSE MARKERS
is the term linguists give to the little words like 'well',
'oh', 'but', and 'and' that break our speech up into parts
and show the relation between parts.

SPEECH ACTS
asks not what form the utterance takes but what it
does
In a nutshell, DISCOURSE is ….

• How language reflects reality


• How language creates reality
• How language shapes our identities and
interactions
• How language is used as to tool to control
people
What does a Discourse Analyst do?

“Discourse analysts work with language data, including


talk, documents and broadcast material. Researchers
in different traditions study interactions and social
practices, meaning-making and larger meaning systems
, and contests and conflicts around collective identities,
social norms and subjectification. ” (Taylor, 2013)
MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

CRITICAL DISCOURSE ETHNOGRAPHY OF


ANALYSIS SPEAKING

DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS

CONVERSATION ANALYSIS GENRE ANALYSIS

PRAGMATICS
APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Approaches to Investigating Discourse Focus of Research Research Question
Structural CA Sequences of talk Why say what at what
moment?
Variationist Structural categories within Why that form?
texts
Functional Speech Acts Communicative acts How to do things with
words?
Ethnography of Communication as cultural How does discourse reflect
Communication behaviour culture?
Interactional Sociolinguistics Social and linguistic What are they doing?
meanings created during
communication
Pragmatics Meaning in interaction What does the speaker
mean?
Chart explaining actions,
theory, and typical data for
DA
ACTIVITY
MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGE
AND DEGREES OF CERTAINTY:
BILINGUAL STUDENTS’
MATHEMATICAL COMMUNICATION
AND PROBABILITY
Karla Culligan and David Wagner
Michigan State University, 2015
INTRODUCTION
• Both mathematics learning and language learning are explicitly stated
goals of the immersion program (Swain & Johnson, 1997).

• Around the world, students learn mathematics through languages


other than their first or home language(s) in a variety of bi- and
multilingual mathematics classroom contexts.

• It is important for researchers and educators to examine how


mathematics and language learning simultaneously take place in the
classroom.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The study focuses on the bilingual


French immersion students’ linguistic
and mathematical repertoires during
collaboration with an interviewer-
researcher on the probability-related
problems and activities.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Language in Mathematics:
• Halliday described three aspects to
consider with regard to any linguistic
situation, including mathematical discussion:
“first, what is actually taking place;
secondly, who is taking part; and
thirdly, what part the language is playing”
(p.31)
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Second Language Education:


• Vygotsky (1962, 1978)
• neo-Vygotskians (Cole, 1985; Donato, 1994;
Lantolf, 2000; Lantolf & Appel, 1994; Swain, 2000;
Swain, Kinnear, & Steinman, 2011; Wertsch, 1985,
1993), which has underscored the social element
driving all individual cognitive functions
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
• Grade 3 French immersion mathematics students
• Skunk die game (whole class) and Skunk card game
• Audio and video recordings of whole-class activity
• Follow-up interviews

• Swain and Lapkin’s (1998) approach


to discourse analysis
• Systemic functional linguistics
(e.g., Halliday, 1994)
RESULTS
AND DISCUSSION
Episode 1: Absolument
Episode 2: “çadoit”
CONCLUSION
• Collaborative dialogue can be a meaningful activity in the
bilingual mathematics classroom
• A need to move beyond viewing strictly academic
mathematics vocabulary as the only acceptable or valuable
mathematical communication.
Thank you!

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