Discourse Analysis

Discourse : 

Discourse is a continous stretch of  language  larger than a sentence,often  constituting  a coherent unit such as argument, joke or narrative.

Discourse Analysis :

Discourse Analysis is a primarily linguistic study examining the use of language by its native population whose major concern is investigating language function along with its forms,produced both orally and in  writing

7 Criteria which have to be fulfilled to qualify either written or a spoken tex as a
discourse:

lCohesion

lCoherence

lIntentionally

lAcceptability

lInformativeness

lSituationality

lIntertextuality

Type of Discourse :

A type of discourse might be characterized as a class of either. Written or Spoken text which is frequently casually specified, recognition of which aids to perception and consequently production of potensial response.

The analysis  of oral communicative produc was the domain of “Steger”, who examined features of various situations and his categorization divided Discourse into

six types:

Presentation, Message, Report, Public

Debate, Conversation, and Interview