[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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