discourse analysis

English

Noun

discourse analysis (usually uncountable, plural discourse analyses)

1. (linguistics) Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
   • 2012, Brian Paltridge, quoting Phillips and Iorgenson, Discourse Analysis: An Introduction, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 14:

     Discourse analysis is not just one approach, but a series of interdisciplinary approaches that can be used to explore many different social domains in many different types of studies. (Phillips and Iorgenson 2002: 1)

Translations

number of approaches to analyzing discourse

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 話語分析／话语分析 (huàyǔ fēnxi), 語篇分析／语篇分析 (yǔpiān fēnxi)

• Czech: diskurzní analýza f, analýza diskurzu f, diskurzivní analýza f
• Danish: diskursanalyse c
• Finnish: diskurssianalyysi (fi)
• German: Diskursanalyse f
• Indonesian: analisis wacana (id)
• Malay: analisis wacana
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: análise do discurso f
• Swedish: diskursanalys c