话语分析与言语行为理论 Discourse Analysis Speech Act Theory.docVIP

PAGE 3 话语分析与言语行为理论 Discourse Analysis Speech Act Theory - PAGE 12 - -1- Chapter One Introduction The term “discourse analysis” was first employed by Z. Harris in his Discourse analysis in 1952 which was considered the prelude to modern discourse analyses. Since the 1980’s, many works on discourse analysis have appeared such as Discourse Analysis: A Social Linguistics Analysis on Nature Language by Michael Stubbs (1982); Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown and George Yule (1983); Introduction to Discourse Analysis by Malcolm Coulthard (1985); Discourse and literature by Van Dijk (1985); Discourse by Buy Cook (1989); Discourse Analysis for Language Teacher by Michael McCarty (1991); Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch (1992); An Introduction to Discourse Analysis : Theory and method by Jamaes Paul Gee (1999) to name a few. In China Essentials of Text Analysis (1988) by Huang Guowen might be the earliest book which gives a systematic introduction to discourse analysis theory. Text Cohesion and Coherence (1994) by Hu Zhuanglin makes a contrast analysis on English and Chinese discourse. An Introduction to Text Linguistics (1994) by Wang Fuxiang makes an introduction to the Chinese discourse which promotes to the development of discourse analysis in China. The different approaches and perspectives adopted to study human communication make it difficult to present an exact definition of discourse analysis. ‘It would be nice if we could squeeze all we know about discourse into a handy definition. Unfortunately, as is also the case for related concepts as ‘language’, ‘communication’, ‘interaction’, ‘society’ and ‘culture’, the notion of discourse is essentially fuzzy.’ (Van Dijk, 1997: 1). In pursuing these areas of research, discourse analysis employs a variety of research methods, ranging from ethnographic fieldwork and conversation analysis to corpus-based analyses, elicitation techniques, and detailed analysis of video- and audio-recorded data. There is n