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discourse analysis

discourse analysis noun: any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.

Noun

discourse analysis (usually uncountable, plural discourse analyses)

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

discourse analysis meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Malay and Indonesian

discourse analysis in Tamil

கருத்தாடல் ஆய்வு

discourse analysis in Kannada

ಸಂಕಥನ ವಿಶ್ಲೇಷಣೆ

discourse analysis in Malay

number of approaches to analyzing discourse
analisis wacana

discourse analysis in Indonesian

number of approaches to analyzing discourse
analisis wacana

Forms of discourse analysis

pluraldiscourse analyses

Questions about discourse analysis

What does discourse analysis mean?
Discourse analysis means any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
What is discourse analysis in Tamil?
Discourse analysis in Tamil is கருத்தாடல் ஆய்வு. See Discourse analysis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is discourse analysis?
Discourse analysis is a noun.
What is the plural of discourse analysis?
The plural of discourse analysis is discourse analyses.

Words near discourse analysis in the dictionary

  1. discours
  2. discoursal
  3. discoursally
  4. discourse
  5. discourse analyses
  6. discourse analysis
  7. discourse analyst
  8. discourse analysts
  9. discourse marker
  10. discourse markers
  11. discoursed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discourse analysis (page history and authors); discourse analysis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); discourse analysis (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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