Title:
LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Authors:
Cristina Raluca Barna

Volume:1 Issue: 8

Abstract:
Discourse analysis embraces practically all the schools of critical theory that have emerged since the late 1950s, concomitantly with the passage from structuralism to post-structuralism and semiotics. Discourse means language in a context of use (Cook, 1989, page 29), the new method being first applied by Zellig Harris to the analysis of some advertisements (1953), that is, to that type of utterance, twin born with the consumer society, which bridges text and usage, text and world, as their aim is to induce certain types of action and response. Discourse analysis studies all acts of speech, all utterances, from an interjection to a three decker (three-volume novel of the Victorian Age). It studies language in a three-dimensional framework: (1) the knowledge, ideology, worldview incorporated in a stretch of text (cognitive values), (2) the social relationships constructed through language, and (3) the formal characteristics and the connectives that construct a text's cohesion "according to a certain world-view" (Levarato 2003: 13). Our paper is probing into the first two layers of discursive values, which are constitutive of what we might call content of discourse in counter distinction to its form.

Citation:

[Barna, Cristina Raluca. "LEVELS OF ANALYSIS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." IJAH, vol. 1, no. 8, 2017, pp. 627-636. September.]