Discourse Analysis

1. An Introduction to Discourse analysis
By: Alba Muñoz.

2. 
 Are different varieties of languages that allow us to
express different socially significant identities
(talking and writing as a magister in linguistics or a
market seller ) to enact specific identities and carry
out specific sorts of activities.
Social language

3. 
 Conversation is composed of a myriad of interactional events
talking plave among specific people and specific times and place.
 Conversations are spoken metaphorically as if the various sides in
debates around issues such as abortion, smoking, gambling,
feminism, etc. you know what the sides are, how they are talked
about and what sorts of people tend to be on a specific sides.
 You can even interpret things you hear and read or in terms of
which you can formulate your own talk and writing. Such public
debates, arguments, motifs, issues or themes are called
Conversations.
Conversation

4. 
 Refers to cases where one oral or written text directly
or indirectly quotes another text or alludes to
another text in yet more subtle ways. Conversations
(with capital C) are debates in society or within
specific social groups (over focused issues such as
smoking, abortion, or school reform) that large
number of people recognize, in terms of both what
¨sides¨ there are to take in such debates and what
sorts of people tend to be on each side.
Intertextuality

5. Discourses are ways with words, deeds and interaction, thoughts and
feelings, objects and tools, times and places, that allow us to enact and
recognize different socially situated identities.