The document discusses different branches of linguistics: - Syntactic analysis studies how words combine to form sentences and the rules governing sentence formation without considering language use. - Semantics deals with word and sentence meanings as well as relations between words and what they refer to, but also without reference to language use. - Pragmatics studies language use in communication, especially relationships between sentences and contexts/situations. It examines topics like how utterance interpretation depends on world knowledge and how speech acts are used and understood. - Discourse analysis examines language use at the multi-sentence level, exploring topics like coherence, pronoun/tense choice effects, and speaker moves between topics. It

2. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL “ FRANCISCO D E MIRANDA” EDUCACION MENCION INGLÉS APRENDIZAJE DIALÓGICO INTERACTIVO U.C ANALISIS DEL DISCURSO SANTA ANA DE CORO; MAYO DE 2009 Lic. Yoselis Ventura Olivet

3. It is a relatively new branch of linguistics. It appeared to satisfy the need of dealing with linguistic problems that could not be explained by the already existing linguistic branches. Since unsolved problems were usually thrown up by linguists in a sort of wastebasket, soon they become conscious that there were more problems waiting for answers in the wastebasket than problems solved.

4. It explains how words combine to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of those sentences. In this kind of study non-reference is made to the users of the language or to the communicative functions that those words or sentences are performing. It studies meaning . It deals with the relations that exist between words and the objects, person or events for which they stand for, with the different kinds of meaning that a word or expression can have (connotation, denotation) or with the semantic structure of the sentence, but again without any reference to the users of the language or the communicative functions performed by those words or expressions.

5. It is the branch of linguistics that deals with the study of the use of language in communication, particularly the relationships that hold between sentences and the contexts and situations in which they are used. Some of the problems studied by pragmatics are: how the interpretation and use of utterances depend on our knowledge of the real word how speakers use and understand speech acts and how the structure of the sentences that we produce during communication is influenced by the relationship between the speaker and the hearer

10. Grammar refers to the rules used in a language to form grammatical units such as clauses, phrases, and sentences, whereas discourse analysis is the study of how sentences in spoken or written language are used to form larger meaningful units such as paragraphs, conversations or interviews in real communicative situations.

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