Look carefully at the following sentences : Well, Raheema was the woman to whom it happened. So it is highly unlikely that Usman is a carpenter. Furthermore, the crow is black. Therefore anyone in the room could have been the culprit. Many cohesive devices are used correctly here, However, it is not clear how the [...]
Discourse is a linguistic unit composed of several sentences, that has a unified meaning – written or spoken. Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive, through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to novels or a lengthy legal case. Discourse Analysis is the study of discourse, or language used by members [...]
This is the study of discourse, or language used by members of a apecific speech community / communities. Discourse Analysis looks at both language form and function, and includes the study of both spoken interaction and written texts.
This is a subfield of linguisitcs that studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in an actual speech situation.