Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

discourse analysis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: dis-course -anal-y-sis
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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)"

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

discourse analyses (plural)

Questions

What does discourse analysis mean?: Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.

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