Discourse+Analysis

__ **Discourse Patterns** __
 * Discourse Patterns are ways of using language to communicate, whether in speech or writing. Changes in a person's discourse patterns may involve change in identity.
 * These discourse patterns are shaped by our culture/tradition and our role within that culture.

__** Discourse Analysis Definition **__
 *  Stretches of language which hang together so as to make sense to some community of people, such as a contribution to a conversation or story.

**__ Discourse Implications: __**
 * Students with less background or experiences in a variety of discourses come to school and are inexperienced at adjusting to new experiences and learning. These children are often at risk due to a lack of discourse participation.

__**Social Registers**__
 * Social languages or registers are the sub-languages within one language that have different styles or varieties. We act/speak differently to different groups of people, in different contexts based on our "cultural group membership" or relationship with whom we are speaking to.
 * When we want to see how people "make sense" using social languages, we can study their discourse (or use a method called Discourse Analysis) to analyze what they have said. One approach to discourse analysis is see how language is connected. We can do this by looking at five connected linguistic systems within a text.

**__ Discourse Analysis discusses: __**

1. //Prosody// - the way that the words are said: their loudness, stress, and pitch and the way the speaker hesitates and pauses. 2. //Cohesion// - the grammatical and lexical relationship within a text or sentence. 3. //The overall discourse organization// of a text. The way the sentences are organized 4. //Contextualization signals// the way the speaker or writer "cues" the listeners or readers into what they take the context to be. 5. //The thematic organization of the text.// They way themes are signaled and developed.