This document defines and discusses the term "discourse". It provides several definitions of discourse, including that it refers to connected speech or writing longer than a single sentence, and that it involves language used in a social context. Examples of discourse include conversations, stories, novels, sermons, and academic papers. The document also discusses how discourse requires interaction between individuals to acquire language, rather than just exposure, and involves cohesion and coherence within a text.

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.