北二外语篇分析课件Discourse Analysis.ppt

Discourse Analysis Lectures for the 4th year students Discourse Analysis 1: Introduction 2: Basic issues in DA 3: Texture (Halliday’s Theory) 4: Texture (Beaugrande Dressler’s Theory) 5: Cohesion and coherence 6: Thematic and information structure 7: Tense and Aspect 8: Discourse structure 9: Conversation analysis 10: Discourse and context 11: DA in application 1: Introduction-- A general understanding When? Came into being since 1950s; as an independent discipline since 1970s. What to study? Language units larger than sentences, including both written and spoken language. 1: Introduction — development of DA 1.Text Linguistics Text linguistics (or discourse linguistics) developed on the basis of syntax (句法学). So it is also called text grammar (篇章语法) or discourse analysis （语篇分析，话语分析）. 1: Introduction — development of DA 2. Stages (1) The Preparatory Stage (1950s): Harris (2) The Developmental Stage (or The Emergence of Discourse Analysis As A New Discipline) (1970s) : Halliday (3) The Matured Stage (1980s):G. Yule, T. Givon, S. Thompson, J. S. Petofi, W. Chafe, W. Mann, R. Longacre, etc. in America; G. Brown, Van Dijk, M. Coulthard, J. Sinclair, E. Ventola, etc. in western Europe; M. A. K. Halliday, R. Hasan, J. Martin, C, Matthiessen, etc. in Austalia; M. Bakhtin in Russia; 廖秋忠, 陈平, 胡壮麟, 沈家煊, 顾曰国, 任绍曾, 申丹，黄国文, 张德禄, 朱永生等。 1: Introduction —definition? 1. The Common-Sense Definitions 2. The Theoretical Definitions : formalist : discourse us a particular unit of language (above the sentence) functionalist : discourse is defined as a particular focus on language use. 1: Introduction —definition? Formalist：Language above the sentence Functionalist: Language use Discourse: utterances 1: Introduction —characteristics discourse must be grammatically correct and semantically coherent. discourse should have an argumentative structure and logical structure it is generally held that the boundary of discourse analysis should exceed the limit of a simple sentence