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    Discourse analysis is the study of language use beyond the sentence level, including how sentences form paragraphs and conversations. It examines how choices in language structure discourse and the relationships between utterances. Pragmatics studies how people understand and perform communicative acts in conversations by distinguishing sentence meaning from speaker meaning. Pragmatics is concerned with language use, focusing on users' choices and the social constraints and effects of language. Discourse analysis specifically examines actual language use in communication. While allied, pragmatics provides theoretical preparation for discourse analysis, which is more application-oriented.

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    Discourse analysis is the study of language use beyond the sentence level, including how sentences form paragraphs and conversations. It examines how choices in language structure discourse and the relationships between utterances. Pragmatics studies how people understand and perform communicative acts in conversations by distinguishing sentence meaning from speaker meaning. Pragmatics is concerned with language use, focusing on users' choices and the social constraints and effects of language. Discourse analysis specifically examines actual language use in communication. While allied, pragmatics provides theoretical preparation for discourse analysis, which is more application-oriented.

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    Discourse analysis is the study of language use beyond the sentence level, including how sentences form paragraphs and conversations. It examines how choices in language structure discourse and the relationships between utterances. Pragmatics studies how people understand and perform communicative acts in conversations by distinguishing sentence meaning from speaker meaning. Pragmatics is concerned with language use, focusing on users' choices and the social constraints and effects of language. Discourse analysis specifically examines actual language use in communication. While allied, pragmatics provides theoretical preparation for discourse analysis, which is more application-oriented.

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    Discourse analysis is the study of language use beyond the sentence level, including how sentences form paragraphs and conversations. It examines how choices in language structure discourse and the relationships between utterances. Pragmatics studies how people understand and perform communicative acts in conversations by distinguishing sentence meaning from speaker meaning. Pragmatics is concerned with language use, focusing on users' choices and the social constraints and effects of language. Discourse analysis specifically examines actual language use in communication. While allied, pragmatics provides theoretical preparation for discourse analysis, which is more application-oriented.

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    Name : Helmi Abdillah

    NIM : 08320049
    A. Discourse Analysis
    The definition offered by The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Crystal, 1992) says:
    Discourse analysis is the study of how sentences in spoken and written language form larger
    meaningful units such as paragraphs, conversations, interviews, etc.
    a) how the choices of articles, pronouns, and tenses affects the structures of the discourse
    b) the relationship between utterances in a discourse
    c) the moves made by speakers to introduce a new topic, change the topic, or insert a higher role
    relationship to the other participants.
    Discourse analysis is delimited as the analysis of language beyond sentence level. This contrasts
    with typical studies of modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of the
    structure of language, such as sound segments (phonetics and phonology), parts of words
    (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax). Discourse
    analysts study the larger chunks of language as they flow together . In recent studies of cohesion
    and coherence, small bits of language like “oh”, “well” and interjections are covered.
    B. Pragmatics
    Pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a
    concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation. It distinguishes two intents or meanings
    in each utterance or communicative act of verbal communication. One is the informative intent or
    the sentence meaning, and the other the communicative intent or speaker meaning. The ability to
    comprehend and produce a communicative act is referred to as pragmatic competence which often
    includes one's knowledge about the social distance, social status between the speakers involved, the
    cultural knowledge such as politeness, and the linguistic knowledge both explicit and implicit.

    C. Pragmatics v.s. Discourse Analysis


    Discourse analysis is allied to pragmatics on the one hand, and their fields of investigation are quite
    different on the other. Pragmatics is traditionally labeled in contrast with semantics, and primarily
    concerned with language in use. In modern linguistics, pragmatics is applied to the study of
    language from the point of view of users, especially of the choice they make, the constraints they
    encounter in using language in social interaction and effects their use of language has on the other
    participants in an act of communication. Discourse analysis is specifically about the understanding
    and examination of spoken or written language in actual communication. Discourse analysis is to
    some extent more application-oriented as opposed to pragmatics; pragmatics sustains Discourse
    analysis with theoretical preparation in turn.

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