3. The emergence of discourse analysis as a disciplinary field: philosophical, pedagogic and linguistic approaches4
This introductory chapter will reconstruct some aspects of the development of what we now call discourse analysis by viewing and contrasting philosophical, pedagogic and linguistic analyses of language behaviours which have contributed in different ways to the field as we now know it. The focus will be on developments which occurred roughly in the nineteen seventies, when, we might say, discourse analysis began to expand enormously in terms of research, study, publications and teaching programmes.
The term “discourse analysis” will be used initially in a very broad sense to designate the analysis of interactive ...
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