CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Connotation
9 Oct 2014
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People assume things are as they appear to be unless there is a good reason to believe otherwise. The knowledge held by people is typically incomplete. Whenever people engage in coordinated actions with others. They usually assume that others see things as they do: conversation analysis in practice, participants" methods of: Phonetically, an utterance is a unit of speech bounded by. In dialogue, each turn by a speaker may be considered an utterance. How discourses inscribe specific ways of speaking and understanding. Discourses of: race and colonialism, nationality, gender, science. Polysemy- many possible interpretations of ordinary signs. Visual analysis is informed strongly by this work: hermeneutics. Study of texts from perspective of its author. Interpreted within historical and cultural context: discourse analysis, can be applied to any sign system, difficult to empirically verify/reliability, looks for social, not individual effects, a major tool of cultural studies, steps, formulate a research problem/question.
