CAOT 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Linguistic System, Prohibition Of Drugs, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime

• School: LACC
• Department: Computer Applications Office Technology
• Course: CAOT 31
• Professor: Jamie

Document Summary

Introduction to discourse analysis: the case of eu drug policy. How are the characteristics of eu policy process influenced by discourse? . Discourse analysis study the ways sentences and utterances (speech) go together to make texts and interactions and how those texts and interactions fit into our social world. It should be noticed also that discourse analysis is not just the study of language, but a way of looking at language as well. This way of looking at language is based on four main assumptions: language is ambiguous. What things mean is never absolutely clear: language is always in the world". It is always combined with other things such as our tone of voice, facial expressions and gestures when we speak, and the fonts, layout and graphics we use in written texts. Understanding how discourse works in policy making processes: Discourse analysts analyze texts" and conversations" and or legal documents.