Discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework of research

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1.THEORETICAL SOURCES OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (FROM SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM TO DISCOURSE)
1.1 Theoretical Starting Points of Discourse Analysis
1.2 Cognitive Approach to Language Study – Psycholinguistics
1.3 Social Approaches to Language Study1.3.1 Semiology

1.3.2 Ethnomethodology
1.3.3 Speech act theory
1.3.4 Theory of social representations1.4 Summary

2. DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
2.1 Delineating the Notion of Discourse
2.2 Approaches to Discourse Analysis
2.3 Objectives of Discourse Analysis
2.4 Components of Discourse Analysis
2.5 Interpretative Repertoires
2.6 Implications of Discourse Analysis and Discourse Psychology

3. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

3.1 Foucault’s Concept of Power
3.2 Characteristics of Critical Discourse Analysis

3.2.1 An Overview
3.2.2 Halliday’s theory of language
3.2.3 Althusser’s theory of ideology

3.3 Objectives of Critical Discourse Analysis
3.4 Discourse and Entry into Discourse
3.5 Discourse Structures
3.6 Categories of Discourse Analysis

3.6.1 Syntax

3.6.1.1 Placement – Prominence
3.6.1.2 Unexpressed doer of an action
3.6.1.3 Tense vs time in utterances
3.6.1.4 Nominalization – substantiation, objectification
3.6.1.5 Fronting, Clefting, Extraposition
3.6.1.6 Syntactic ambiguity
3.6.1.7 Pronouns
3.6.1.8 Contrastive conjunctions
3.6.1.9 Proposition

3.6.2 Identification of relevant participants

3.6.2.1 Description of participants