The Introduction to
Discourse Analysis
By Dr. Bejo Sutrisno, M.Pd.
Recognize the nature of discourse analysis to obtain theoretical knowledge based on formal, functional and formal functional (dialectic) perspectives or views.
- Understand the formal approach in discourse analysis;
- Understand the functional approach in discourse analysis;
- Understand functional and formal functional (dialectic) in discourse analysis;
- Understand the meaning of discourse in general
What is Discourse Analysis?
Concerned with the study of the relationship between language and the contexts in which it is used.
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A method of analysis which
focused entirely on participants’ language.
- Discourse is a complete linguistic record of communication events, both oral and written
- Discourse is as a series of interrelated sentences (connecting one proposition with another) and forming a unity of meaning.
- Purwo (1993: 4) defines discourse as a speech event, that is, what happens between speaker and receiver.
- Schiffrin (1994: 18) defines discourse as a language that has a certain system that is used in accordance with the context.
- the structure of ideas,
- the speaker's thought process,
- the choice of the speaker's language and
- situation.
