There are many ways to conduct a discourse analysis study, some of which are listed here: - Conversation Analysis
The study of social interaction. This can encompass both verbal language and non-verbal language such as body language.
- Interactional Sociolinguistics
A subdiscipline of sociolinguistics that takes interaction into account when studying the meaning created by language users.
- Critical Discourse Analysis (Example Research)
An interdisciplinary of discourse analysis that views language in terms of its social practices; considering how social and political powers are represented in speech.
- Stylistics
A practice of linguistics that studies and interprets texts. It links literary criticism and linguistics together, but remains descriptive (i.e. it isn't judgemental).
However, a discourse analysis is not limited to these methods. At risk of sounding repetitive, it must once more be stressed that a discourse analysis concerns practically any form of text; be it written, spoken or visual etc. |