PPT-Discourse Analysis of Gullah Texts

David Frank SIL International Mekin Manure on Sent Helena Islan Samuel Polite Now I come to di manure I pit seben load a trash right een di bottom Den I pit tree cod a maash straw Den I pit a load a trash on um aginso much trash on um agin Den I pit bout eight load a sanmud cross umbroadcass um cross umtrash maash mud An I keep on wid dat an keep on wid dat ontilyou see how mine stan deh now I keep on wid dat an wen dis rain done wid dat manure I dis kin tuk um an broadcass um I trow mine dis way I trow one furra dat way an I trow one dis way. AND . VOCABULARY. Bring. a . discourse. . dimention. . to. . teach. . vocabulary. Not . abandoning. . vocabulary. . teaching. , . instead. . offering. a . supplement. . to. . conventional. Discourse, genre and discourse type. Definitions of discourse. The literature provides . many different . definitions of “discourse” (see . Jaworski. and . Coupland. 1-37 for an overview). In reality they have more overlap than would appear at first sight.. Evaluation and attribution in news discourse. Aims. . of. . course. By. the end . of. the . course. . you. . will. . have. . gained. Awareness. . of. text . features. Knowledge. . of. . metalanguage. IT IS ALWAYS BE A BIG QUESTION.. What is discourse?. THE FIRST THING TO KNOW IS . SCHRIFFIN ET AL (2003) NOTE THAT THERE ARE “THREE MAIN CATEGORIES” OF DISCOURSE DEFINITION . ANYTHING BEYOND THE SENTENCE;. “CDA [is]fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control when these are manifested in language. In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, and legitimized by language use.” (. Presentation by:. C. Kyle Rudick (PhD, Communication Studies). Greg Bourassa (PhD, Educational Psychology and Foundations). Background on Project. Rudick, C. K., Bourassa, G., Ellison, S. (under review). . , Texture . AND TEXTUALITY. LM116/17 (Boyd). 27 October 2016. what is (a) text?. TEXT. is . an . actual instance of language in use (Fairclough) or discourse. , or, more generally, any stretch of language, either spoken or written, that forms a unified whole. . LM1 – Boyd . 2016/17. 20. . October 2015. traditional grammar. “a somewhat loose ‘umbrella term’ covering a range of approaches to the study of language” (Coffin & O’Halloran) focuses . LO: to understand audience and purpose in further detail; to be able to apply this to other texts. Some key terminology. for this lesson. Implied meaning. Where. inference (reading between the lines) is needed to access the underlying meaning of a text or discourse. and . M.Spyridakis. , . Spetses. , June 2017 . Discourse . is no longer or solely either the study of linguistic forms or the study of language use.. Discourse . is . rather viewed . as a social . practice referring either to spoken or to written contexts.. Discourse analysis study the ways sentences and utterances. (speech). go together to make texts and interactions and how those texts and interactions fit into our social world.. It should be noticed also that discourse analysis is not just the study of language, but a way of looking at language as well.. Challenging (Millennial) Generation Research in Education: A Critical/Cultural Approach Presentation by: C. Kyle Rudick (PhD, Communication Studies) Greg Bourassa (PhD, Educational Psychology and Foundations) Course Tutor: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Q. Abed. Content. . Introduction. 6.1 Grammar from Discourse Perspective. 6.2 The texture of a text. 6.3 Cohesion and Discourse. 6.4 Reference. 6.5 Lexical Cohesion . 6.6 Collocation. continuous stretch of language larger than . a sentence. , often constituting a coherent unit. , such . as sermon, argument, joke or narrative. .”. (. Crystal:1992). “stretches . of language perceived to be meaningful, .