Subject: Discourse Analisys.
Mandatory Task from Unit 1
Learner: Yanina Salgueiro.
1- What is Discourse analysis? Explain in your own words.
Discourse Analysis is a method that focuses on analizing analyzing written, spoken and signed
language use. It involves; discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event, and so on.
2- Which of the following features belong to the sentence linguistic approach and which belong to
the discourse analysis approach?
Features:
Any unified stretch of language Discourse Analysis.
Abstracted Linguistic
In context Discourse Analysis
Without context Linguistic
Achieving meaning Linguistic Discourse Analysis
Isolated sentences Linguistic
Invented Linguistic
Idealized Linguistic
Grammatically well-formed Discourse Analysis. Sentence linguistic
3- Explain in your own words what the Speech Act Theory is about. How is it related to Discourse
Analysis?
Speech act Theory is a term used in linguistics which it is commonly taken to include acts as:
promising, ordering, greetings, warming, inviting and congratulating
Incomplete
How is it relates to DA?
Feedback:
Yanina,
Your explanation of the Speech Act theory is incomplete and you didn’t answer the second part of
the question: How is it related to Discourse Analysis?. So, I think it will be better if you redo the
activity taking these corrections into account.
Regards,
Cinthia