Hello friends, its quite interesting to find out that discourse analysis is becoming increasingly established in family practice.
It may be seen as the study of ones social life and behaviour through indebt criticism and analysis of language in its widest sense.
It may also be seen as an attempt to discover linguistic regularities in discourse using grammatical, phonological and semantic criteria.
it is a background effort to interprete what the writer or speaker intended to convey within a social setting
One may draw an illustrative lesson from the Father -son interaction below:
Father: Kelly is that your coat on the floor again?
Kelly: Yes (goes on reading)
Here the son kelly replied in a simple context where a yes or no answer is needed but the father would rather mean that he should pick the coat up from the ground and perharps, warns that it had actually falling previously and should not feel again
Strictly speeking, i have come to understand that in some scenerios, there are some conversations whose demanded meaning is not found in the verbal communication rather in the non-verbal-communication. Such conversation seen as a discuss analysis definitely is made up of the mix of verbal and non-verbal communication.
A good example can be seen about the life experience of some nurses over a patient suicide in the address below
Accounting for Accountability: A Discourse Analysis of Psychiatric
Nurses’ Experience of a Patient Suicide
Maggie Robertson*, Brodie Paterson, Billy Lauder, Rosemary Fenton and John Gavin
