Lecture 13:
--Discourse analysis focuses on the thread of language (and related semiotic systems) used in the situation network.
--Any piece of language, oral or written, is composed of a set of grammatical cues or clues (Gumperz 1982) that help listeners or readers (in negotiation and collaboration with others in an interaction) to build six things.
--these six things are interlinked “representations,” that is, “re-presentings”).
--utterances are made up of cues or clues as
to how to move back and forth between language and context (situations), not
signals of fixed and decontextualized meanings.
--Language, then, always contains cues or clues that guide us (either as interpreters
on the scene or as analysts) in the six sorts of building tasks.
--Even when we are silently reading, these building tasks are carried out.