Tag Archives: Linguistics

This post includes a detailed description of syntax examples and it also tells about using examples in syntax. Use of Linguistic Examples This blog post explains the concept of “What is Syntax” in detail. It will demonstrate why studying examples of all foreign languages is necessary to understand syntax and …

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 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 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 …