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 …
Read More »Cooperative Principle in Discourse
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“. …
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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 …
Read More »Speech Act Theory
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 …
Read More »Theme and Rheme in Discourse
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 …
Read More »Cohesive Devices: Conjunctions in Discourse
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 …
Read More »Critical Discourse Analysis
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 …
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