two models?

hefin jones hefinjones at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 25 04:03:14 EDT 2002



George Said...

>Forwarded for George Somsel <Polycarp66 at aol.com>
>Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:07:38 EDT
>
>I would go further than even you go.  I don't see discourse analysis as
>properly being a function of grammar at all.  Grammar deals with the
>traditional subjects included in it for many, many years.  This is not to
>disparage discourse analysis.  I think discourse analysis has a very
>valuable contribution to make to an improved understanding of the text;
>it's just that it is not grammar.
>
>gfsomsel
>

Hefin Jones (who once long ago was a linguistics student...) says...


Amen.


PS --- To understand why DA is not grammar have a read of Dan Sperber and 
Deidrie Wilson's "Relevance: Cognition and Communication" (Oxford: 
Blackwells).

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