Tag Archives: Discourse

This post includes a detailed explanation of the concept of Conversational Implicature in Discourse along with relevant examples. We’ve all been there; you have watched five episodes of a TV show on Netflix and are just about to fall asleep when the screen has a pop-up message asking ‘Are you …

Vhis post includes a detailed description of the concept of cooperative Principle in Discourse. The cooperative principle is the assumption that participants in a conversation normally attempt to be informative, truthful, relevant, and clear. The concept was introduced by philosopher H. Paul Grice in his 1975 article “Logic and Conversation“. …

This post includes a detailed description of Conversation Analysis, an important feature of spoken discourse. Conversation analysis is an approach to the analysis of spoken discourse that looks at the way in which people manage their everyday conversational interactions. Moreover, It examines how spoken discourse is organized and develops as …

This post includes a detailed explanation of Speech Act Theory along with Austin’s speech acts and Searle’s speech acts. In discourse analysis, speech act theory is a subfield of pragmatics that studies how words are used not only to present information but also to carry out actions. The speech act …

This post includes a detailed analysis of Context Meaning in Discourse along with a description of the types of context in discourse. Let’s have a look at Context Meaning in Discourse: The context in discourse analysis is the social system or structural framework in which a conversation takes place. For …

This post includes a detailed analysis of Theme and Rheme in Discourse along with different types of themes in discourse. Let’s have a look at Theme and Rheme in Discourse: The theme is the starting point of a clause or a sentence; that is, what the clause is ‘about’. The …

This post includes a detailed description of cohesive devices along with the components of lexical cohesion in coherence and cohesion. Lexical cohesion involves the choice of vocabulary. It is concerned with the relationship that exists between lexical items in a text such as words and phrases, in particular, content words, …

This post includes a description of cohesive devices: conjunctions in discourse including subordinating conjunctions, additive conjunctions, adversative conjunctions, causal conjunctions, and temporal conjunctions. A conjunction is an element of Grammatical Cohesion in Discourse. Let’s have a look at Cohesive Devices: Conjunctions in Discourse: What is a Conjunction? Conjunctions are linking …

To begin with, this post will define Ellipsis in Discourse which is a component of coherence and cohesion and is considered an important grammatical cohesive device in the subject of discourse analysis. Define Ellipsis in Discourse: Ellipsis Definition: Initially, the ellipsis is the process of omitting an unnecessary item, which …

This post includes definitions and examples of Critical Discourse Analysis, discourse analysis and discourse in Linguistics. What is Discourse? Discourse is the verbal or written exchange of ideas.  Any unit of connected speech or writing that is   A. longer than a sentence and   B. that has a coherent meaning …