discourse analysis
Americannoun
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the study of the rules or patterns characterizing units of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence.
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the study of the rules governing appropriate language use in communicative situations.
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The title, “The Magical Language of Others,” comes from an idea in discourse analysis: that we can never truly understand one another because of all the networks and meanings that belong to anything you say.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2021
In the language of political discourse analysis, greatness and strength are both examples of a frame: a guiding metaphor or image for a political argument.
From The Guardian • Nov. 13, 2016
Her major research interests are linguistic stylistics, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.
From Interviews (1998-2001) by Lebert, Marie
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