what is discourse

1.  NAME:- SEJAL R PARMAR
 SEM:- 2
 ENROLMENT NO:- 2069108420190033
 YEAR:- 2018-2020
 EMAIL:- sejalparmar095@gmail.com
 TOPIC:- WHAT IS DISCOURSE
 SUBMITTED TO:- DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH, MKBU

2.  Comes from the Latin
“discursus”, denoting
“conversation, speech”
 Written or spoken
communication
 In linguistics, a unit of
language longer than a
single sentence
 Broadly speaking, use of
spoken /written language in
a social context
 ‘conversation or speech’

3. While it used to be generally held that mere
exposure is language is sufficient to set the
child's language generating machinery in
motion, it is now clear that , in order for
successful first language acquisition to take
place, interaction, rather than exposure is
required; children do not learn language
from overhearing the conversations of
others or from listening to the radio, and
must, acquire it in the context of being
spoken to”.

4. Discourse … Foucault presents
possibly the best definition of discourse…
in literature, discourse means speech or
writing, normally longer than sentences,
which deals with a certain subject formally.

5.  Any connected piece of speaking or writing –
Cambridge delta
 “ Novels, as well as short conversation or might
be equally rightfully named discourses”.
 Discourse: a continuous stretch (especially
spoken) language larger than a sentence, often
constituting a coherent unit such as a sermon,
argument, joke, or narrative.

6. 1. Archaic: the
capacity of orderly
thought or procedure:
rationality
2. verbal interchange
of ideas; especially:
conversation
3. formal and orderly
and usually extended
expression of thought
on a subject.

7. 4. connected speech or writing
5. a linguistic unit (as a conversation or a
story) larger than a sentence
6. obsolete: social familiarity
7. a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or
experience that is rooted in language.

8. 1). In linguistics, a
unit of language
longer than a single
sentence is called
discourse
2). Continuous
stretch of language
(written or spoken)
larger than a
sentence

9. COHESION:-
Cohesion means links and ties with in the
text
COHERENCE:-
Coherence in linguistics is what makes a
text semantically meaningful.

10. A discourse is a context-bound act waiting to
be of communication verbalized in a text,
and waiting to be inferred from it.
Such as a communication act is inherently
an interpersonal activity between two
parties. The addresser and the addressee.
They may share a physical context, as in
face to face conversation, or may not, as in
written discourse.

11. Context is not simple a matter of physical
circumstances but of the ideas, values,
beliefs, and so on inside people heads. In this
sense all communication is a meeting of
minds.
In literature the communication situation is
not so straightforward. Since literature texts
are disconnected from ordinary social
practice.