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Discourse Analysis: Key Concepts and Applications

The document outlines the study of discourse analysis, its applications, and its significance for language teachers and translators. It covers various topics including contextual analysis, speech act theory, grammatical analysis, and discourse structure, providing examples and definitions for key concepts. Each chapter poses questions aimed at exploring the complexities of language use in different contexts and forms.

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Discourse Analysis: Key Concepts and Applications

The document outlines the study of discourse analysis, its applications, and its significance for language teachers and translators. It covers various topics including contextual analysis, speech act theory, grammatical analysis, and discourse structure, providing examples and definitions for key concepts. Each chapter poses questions aimed at exploring the complexities of language use in different contexts and forms.

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CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS


1. What does discourse analysis study?
2. What are the applications of discourse analysis?
3. Is discourse analysis important to language teachers? In what ways? Please illustrate your
answers with examples.
4. Is discourse analysis important to translators/ interpreters? In what ways? Please illustrate
your answers with examples.
5. What is discourse? Give your own definition, as brief as you can.

CHAPTER 2
CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
1. Think of one/ two/ three utterance(s); provide different contexts of situation and
indicate different meanings this utterance may mean.

3. Give an example of one utterance in Vietnamese which can have different meanings
when translated into English and vice versa.

4. Read the following text(s) and analyze its/ their context of situation basing on
Hymes’s/ Firth’s / Halliday’s contextual framework.

CHAPTER 3
SPEECH ACT THEORY
1. What is speech act? Give examples.

2. What are locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary acts? Give examples.

3. What are direct and indirect speech acts? Give examples.

4. What is a performative? Give examples.

5. Which of the following utterances qualify as explicit performatives?

6. Would the main purpose of making the following constatives be simply to describe
some existing state of affairs? Provide a context and say what they might mean.

7. Describe some of the likely perlocutionary effects of the following utterances.


9. Say what illocutionary acts are performed by the following interrogative clauses.

CHAPTER 4 + 5
GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS
Only practice:
Analyze the following sentences/ dialogue/ conversation in terms of
Experiential meaning
Interpersonal meaning
Textual meaning
Cohesive devices

CHAPTER 6
DISCOURSE STRUCTURE
1. What is an adjacency pair? Give examples.

2. What is a pre-sequence? Give examples. What is the purpose of a pre-sequence?

3. What is an exchange? An interchange? Give examples?

4. How is the structure of written texts described? Present briefly.

5. What is a stage? An element? A sequence?

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