In ELT - I m discussed about what is Discourse ?

1. Research on the bases on Michel
McCarthy’s ‘Discourse’ ? What is
Discourse?
Name : Radha Ghevariya
Roll No: 22
Paper : (12) ELT (English Language Teaching)
Enrollment No. : PG14101013
Year : 2015- ‘16
Email: radhaghevariya55@gmail.com
Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of
English Bhavnagar University

2. Michael McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics
at the University of Nottingham, UK, Adjunct Professor of
Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University, USA,
and Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University
of Limerick, Ireland. He is author of Vocabulary (Oxford
University Press, 1990), Discourse Analysis for Language
Teachers(Cambridge University Press, 1991), Language as
Discourse (with Ronald Carter, Longman, 1994), Exploring
Spoken English(with Ronald Carter, Cambridge University
Press, 1997), Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and
Pedagogy (co-edited with Norbert Schmitt, Cambridge
University Press, 1997), Spoken Language and Applied
Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Exploring
Grammar in Context (with Ronald Carter and Rebecca Hughes,
Cambridge University Press, 2000), Issues in Applied
Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The
Cambridge Grammar of English (with Ronald Carter,
Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is also co-author
of Vocabulary in Use, Basic, Upper Intermediate and Advanced
levels(with Felicity O'Dell, Cambridge University Press, 1994),
and author/co-author of more than 70 academic papers

3. “System of thoughts
composed of ideas,
attitude, and courses of
action, beliefs and practice
they systematically
construct the subject and
the words of which they
speak”
Definition of
Discourse

5. ~ Discourse study of language
independently of the notion of the
sentence.
~ the study of the ways in which
language is used in text and context.
~ it examining the relation between
a text and the situation in which it
occurs.
~ it also part of one type of
communicative competence

8. Discourse analysis
 Interdisciplinary approach to the
study of discourse that views language
as a form of social practice and focuses
on the ways social and political
domination are reproduced in text and
talk
Discourse analysis as a part of textual
analysis.
 Discourse analysis work with
utterances rather than with sentences.

9.  Discourse analysts,
interested in three
question
a. who wrote the notice
and to whom?
b. how do we know
what it means?
c. what factors played a
role in this?
 interested in things
“well-formed”

11. Textual Analysis

12. Speech Analysis
~ Speech is most typically
Created ‘on line’ or spontane-
Ously and received in real
Time.
~ For Example :
“Get Out”

13. Conclusion
~ This chapter focuses on language
rather than as sentences.
~ At last we can say that seeing
language as discourse lies at the
heart of the whole enterprise.