Bölüm anahatları

  • The notion of text

    Features of text organization

  • Text context of situation

    Halliday and Hasan’s approach to text

    Beaugrande and Dressler’s approach to text

  •  What is discourse analysis?

     Who does discourse analysis and why?

     Ways and means of discourse analysis

    • Trappes-Lomax, H. (2004). Discourse Analysis. In Davies, A. & Elder, C. (Eds.), The Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp. 133-164). Blackwell Publishing.

  • Written discourse and spoken discourse

    Approaches to discourse analysis

    • McCarthy, M., Matthiessen, C. & Slade, D. (2002). Discourse Analysis. In Schmidt, N. (Ed.), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (pp. 53-68). New York: Arnold. 

  • Features of cohesion

    Features of coherence

  • -       Reference

    -       Ellipsis

    -       Substitution

    -       Conjunction

    -       Lexical cohesion

  • Analysing texts in terms of cohesion and coherence

  • Studies on critical discourse analysis


    • van Dijk, T. A. (2015). What is Critical Discourse Analysis? In Shiffrin, D., Tannen, D. & Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 352-371). Blackwell Publishers. 

  • Textual analysis of news

    Practice: Textual analysis of a news article

  • Studies on discourse and gender

    • Kendall, S. & Tannen, D. (2001). Discourse and Gender. In Shiffrin, D., Tannen, D. & Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 548-567). Blackwell Publishers.

  • Studies on discourse in educational settings

    • Temple Adger, C. (2001). Discourse in Educational Settings. In Shiffrin, D., Tannen, D. & Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 503-517). Blackwell Publishers.

  • Studies on discourse and narrative analysis

    • Johnstone, B. (2001). Discourse Analysis and Narrative. In Shiffrin, D., Tannen, D. & Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 635-649). Blackwell Publishers.

  • Studies on discourse analysis in the legal context

    • Shuy, R. W. (2001). Discourse in the Legal Context. In Shiffrin, D., Tannen, D. & Hamilton, H. E. (Eds.), The Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 437-452). Blackwell Publishers.