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Understanding Discourse Analysis in Sociology

Discourse analysis examines how language constructs meaning in different contexts beyond just words, investigating how power dynamics influence communication through approaches like descriptive analysis of language structures, critical analysis of socio-political power imbalances, and ethnographic interpretation of social practices. Effective discourse analysis requires choosing an analytical approach, collecting relevant data, investigating content, analyzing findings, and reviewing conclusions.

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Understanding Discourse Analysis in Sociology

Discourse analysis examines how language constructs meaning in different contexts beyond just words, investigating how power dynamics influence communication through approaches like descriptive analysis of language structures, critical analysis of socio-political power imbalances, and ethnographic interpretation of social practices. Effective discourse analysis requires choosing an analytical approach, collecting relevant data, investigating content, analyzing findings, and reviewing conclusions.

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Discourse Analysis

Tamilarasu S
Doctoral Scholar
Department Of Sociology and Population Studies
Bharathiar University
Let’s start with the word “Discourse”

What is Discourse?
-Verbal or Written form of communication.
-Goes beyond language.

Form of Symbolic and linguistic units


Language (i.e. Text -Road signs)

Overall meaning conveyed by


Discourse language in Context
Discourse Analysis
When should you use Discourse Analysis?

• To Investigate the
Power And Power Imbalance
Functions of Language
To achieve Power
social goals Inequality
• How meaning is
constructed in different
context Power
Imbalance
E.g. Politician's Speech
How People
Ideology
Communicate
Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Language In Use Socio - Political


•Sentence Structure (Descriptive In nature) •Beyond the technicalities of language
•Formalist Roots: Pays attention to different •Critical discourse analysis – Michel Foucault
rules of communication.
•Power Structure
•Technicalities of language
•Language is power
E. g. – Dynamic Relations between a superior
and subordinate.
Other forms of Discourse Analysis

•Ethnography based Discourse Analysis


Theoretical Approaches
- Interpretation of social practices
•Multimodal Analysis •Structuralism
- variety of Texts. •Modernism
•Post-modernism
How to Do Discourse Analysis?
•Decide your discourse Analysis Approach
•Data collection method And Gather your data
•Investigate the Content
•Analyze your data
•Review your work.

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