Discourse语篇社会语言学.pptVIP

Discourse By Liuxuan 1. Background Before the 1920s, there were many studies on language itself from syntax view. The studies are mainly on the grammatical structure of seperated sentences. They studied neither the relationship between sentences, nor the functions of sentences in a larger linguistic unit. However, just like one word may have different meanings in different sentences, one sentence also has different meanings and functions in different linguistic context. 2. Relevent concepts 2.1 Definitions Discourse is language above the sentence or above the clause. (St