The Role of Culture in Discourse
The Role of Culture in Discourse
1.0 Introduction Discourse, its etymology comes from Latin, discursus (which means “running to and fro”) is the term that concerns with spoken and written communication. In linguistics, discourse is a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse could be the use of spoken or written language in a social context.
According to Hinkel and Fotos (2002) in New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms, discourse in context may consist of only one or two words as in ‘stop’ or ‘no smoking’. Instead, a piece of discourse can also be hundreds of thousands of words in length, represented by some novels and a typical piece of discourse is said somewhere between these two extremes.
Discourse is in a way language is used socially to deliver broad meanings as it is identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using it and under what conditions. From my point of view, language can never characterized as ‘neutral’ because it reflects our personal, knowledge and background of our social worlds. Hence, discourse analysis concerns with investigating the form and function of what is said and written. It covers with an extremely wide range activities from narrowly focused investigation of how words such as ‘oh’ or ‘well’ are used in casual talk to the study of the dominant ideologies in a culture for instance like in its educational or political practices.
Linguistic discourse analysis focuses on the record of the process by which language is used in some context to express intention. A well formed-text constructed by, firstly; an explicit connection between sentences in a text that create cohesion while secondly, the elements of textual organization that are characteristics of storytelling, expressing an opinion and etc. Meanwhile, the pragmatic perspective of discourse analysis specialized on aspects of what is unsaid (or unwritten) but yet communicated. Even the data from
1.0 Introduction Discourse, its etymology comes from Latin, discursus (which means “running to and fro”) is the term that concerns with spoken and written communication. In linguistics, discourse is a unit of language longer than a single sentence. More broadly, discourse could be the use of spoken or written language in a social context.
According to Hinkel and Fotos (2002) in New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms, discourse in context may consist of only one or two words as in ‘stop’ or ‘no smoking’. Instead, a piece of discourse can also be hundreds of thousands of words in length, represented by some novels and a typical piece of discourse is said somewhere between these two extremes.
Discourse is in a way language is used socially to deliver broad meanings as it is identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using it and under what conditions. From my point of view, language can never characterized as ‘neutral’ because it reflects our personal, knowledge and background of our social worlds. Hence, discourse analysis concerns with investigating the form and function of what is said and written. It covers with an extremely wide range activities from narrowly focused investigation of how words such as ‘oh’ or ‘well’ are used in casual talk to the study of the dominant ideologies in a culture for instance like in its educational or political practices.
Linguistic discourse analysis focuses on the record of the process by which language is used in some context to express intention. A well formed-text constructed by, firstly; an explicit connection between sentences in a text that create cohesion while secondly, the elements of textual organization that are characteristics of storytelling, expressing an opinion and etc. Meanwhile, the pragmatic perspective of discourse analysis specialized on aspects of what is unsaid (or unwritten) but yet communicated. Even the data from