[B-Greek] Discourse Analysis
Rick Carlton
rickcarlton at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 11 18:43:34 EST 2009
I recently read an article that postulated four schools of thought in discourse analysis. Can anyone help me clarify, characterize and define these if they do indeed exist?
1. Continental-
2. SIL-
3. South African-
4. Hallidayan- aka systemic linguistics
Six concerns of Hallidayan Textlinguistics
1.. Reference- "John makes good meals. Last night he cooked spaghetti."
2.. Subsitution- " I want an ice cream cone, Do you want one?"
3.. Ellipsis- "Which hat will you wear? This is the best."
4.. Lexical Cohesion- "There's a boy climbing that tree."
a.. The boy's going to fall if he doesn't take care.
b.. The child's going to fall....
c.. The idiot's going to fall...
5.. Conjunction- "For the whole day he climbed up the steep mountainside, almost with out stopping. And in all this time he met no one."
Let me clarify that I am not dealing with the major schools of thought for textlinguistics which evolved into discourse analysis (ie. the truly inter-disciplinary approach to textlinguistics.)
One source categorized textlinguistics by the following:
1. Prague-
2. Systemic Linguistics-
3. Discourse Analysis-
Thanks,
Rick
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