scholarly journals Genre Analysis of Memo from Headmaster to Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 771
Author(s):  
Ghazi Mohammad Takal ◽  
Mujtaba Jamal ◽  
Abdul Rahmat
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Discourse Communities ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
School Headmaster

<p>Discourse analysis has always been a great tool for analyzing both spoken and written discourses in various discourse communities. Specifically, it has largely been used for written discourse analysis. For instance, it has been used in analysis of memos. Memos have been a valuable part of written discourse in different settings. Thus, this paper is the analysis of a memo written by a school headmaster. The author used Genre Analysis as a discourse analysis for analyzing the memo text in this paper. Although there are several models for genre analysis, Genre Analysis of Vijay. K Bhatia Model has been used in this study. The findings revealed that the memo was related to a professional genre of school while meeting not the entire characteristics of professional genre. The research suggested that future studies be conducted concerning memo analysis.</p>

scholarly journals CAPTURING THE FRAMES OF NEWS STORY LEADS IN PHILIPPINE DAILIES: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Emily T. Astrero ◽  
Joel M. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
News Story ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Ideal

Using 31 news leads found in news articles   published in Philippines newspapers – three broadsheets and one tabloid – the present study describes the news leads’ organizational structure  and  identifies the shared cultural context evoked by the news leads. The analysis of the news discourse employed Bhatia’s (1993) genre analysis focusing on communicative purpose, and Simpson’s (2000) physical structure analysis. The study revealed that the genre of journalism, specifically the 31 news leads, fulfilled its main communicative purpose - which is to convey information - through Direct, Summary, or Conventional lead. The leads are characterized by brevity and directness with adherence to the ideal length consisting of 35-word limit in both broadsheet newspaper and tabloid newspaper. The result implied that writing pattern or written discourse is influenced by the culture of specific genre. The result manifested that Filipinos are capable of adaptation to rules in a particular genre. The study served as an avenue in finding out the conclusion that digressiveness, which is a characteristic of writings of Oriental writers, is not always evident in the discourse of newspaper compositions of Filipino writers. This study maybe helpful to researchers who wish to analyze culture through discourse analysis using  a specific genre.

scholarly journals Religious and Socio-cultural Influences on the Pakistani Wedding Invitation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 354-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musarat Yasmin ◽  
Farhat Naseem ◽  
Ayesha Sohail
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Generic Structures

AbstractThe Wedding Invitation is one of the significant text genres. Following genre analysis approach and discourse analysis (DA), the present research analysed the wedding invitation genres in Pakistan to explore generic structures, as well as the role played by the broader socio-cultural norms and values in shaping this genre. Therefore, a corpus of 50 wedding invitations in Urdu and English was randomly selected from cards received from January to June 2018. The results of this genre analysis revealed seven obligatory and one optional move in Urdu, while six obligatory and one optional move in English invitations. Through discourse analysis, it has been uncovered how religious association and cultural influence in Pakistani society shape textual selection. Little variation was displayed in the invitations of the two languages, presumably due to regional cultural reflections and recent influence of western values. A comparison of Pakistani and UK invitations showed differences not only in move selection but also in lexical choices which are shaped by the respective cultures.

Research into practice: The influence of discourse studies on language descriptions and task design in published ELT materials

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Discourse Studies

Discourse studies is a vast, multidisciplinary, and rapidly expanding area of research, embracing a range of approaches including discourse analysis, corpus analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, genre analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. Each approach offers its own unique perspective on discourse, focusing variably on text, context or a range of semiotic modes. Together, they provide foreign language teachers and material designers with new insights into language, and are beginning to have an observable impact on published English Language Teaching (ELT) materials. This paper examines the ways in which the four approaches with the strongest links to the ELT profession (corpus analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis and genre analysis) have found their way into language learning materials, and offers some suggestions on how discourse studies may influence ELT classrooms in the future.

Pragmatic functions of repetitions in spontaneous spoken dialect discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Danila Zuljan Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Planning Time

Abstract Repetition is a natural phenomenon employed to perform a variety of cognitive, psychological, interactional, stylistic, didactic and pragmatic functions in spoken and written discourse. Adopting the method of discourse analysis, the study attempts to explore the pragmatic functions of repetitions as used in spoken dialect narrative discourse. On a propositional level, only those repetitions which establish and maintain co-reference are necessary, all other forms seem to be redundant. However, if we take into account their pragmatic functions, they are not, as the data gathered in the study show. In fact, speakers use them, deliberately or not, as an effective communication strategy in the following functions: to extend the planning time to find a suitable lexeme, to enhance the importance of a lexeme, to emphasize the length of an event, after an interruption, to eliminate uncertainty and to confirm the correctness of the co-speaker’s statement. They also reveal the speakers emotions, like his/her emotional shock, and are used as a part of the so-called conversational duet. The data include the transcripts of the interviews with 6 dialect speakers in the Brda/Collio region, western Slovenia.

College disability support offices as advertisements: A multimodal discourse analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144562096692
Author(s):  
So Yoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
College Community ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Semiotic Resources

This study examined the disability support offices (DSOs) websites of twelve US higher education institutions (HEIs) anchored in multimodal discourse analysis and genre analysis to examine how semiotic resources are deployed to describe DSO services on their websites and to determine the discursive functions of advertisement they perform. The DSO websites were within four clicks from HEI homepages but had inconsistent navigation paths, making it difficult to reach DSO websites. DSO websites were foregrounding promoting and branding the institutions rather than presenting the information about the services offered. This is achieved by using multimodal promotional rhetoric such as: (a) situating accessibility as central commodifiable attribute, (b) promoting the value of accessibility, (c) establishing the superiority of the institution, (d) constructing images of students with disabilities as empowered but dependent upon the DSO, and (e) situating students within a college community. Implications for DSO websites functioning as advertisements are also discussed.

scholarly journals The Discursive Construction of Gender as Social Identity in Arabic written Discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Shifaa Hadi Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Written Discourse

Identity is the idiosyncratic features that characterize an individual as being unique. It is the dynamic per formativeness of self through behaviors, acts, clothes and etc.. When such self is shared (by sharing memories, desires, and emotions) with others, it becomes social identity. Such an identity is, thus, changed, transformed, spoke out, acknowledged and never be fixed at any moment of life. The current study aims at studying the discursive construction of social identity in Arabic written discourse. It seeks to ponder the question of what linguistic devices do the Arab writers utilize to identify themselves in discourse and to show sameness and differences between in – and out- groups. To attain the above aim, we hypothesize that Arab writers use scanted discursive and linguistic devices to identify gender in their writing. Accordingly, seven linguistic and discursive components have been chosen to analyze the discourse to unveil the identity of its writer: processes, mood, modality, vocabulary and collocation, pronouns, figurative uses of language, and interdiscursivity. The study comes with some conclusions, the most important of which are: social identity can be traced in Arabic discourse through the construction of in _ and out_ groups with the in- group being victimized by the out-group who is the dominant, a conclusion which clashes with studies of critical discourse analysis, and changes and transformation of identity occur through stages including: attention, interest, solutions and urging by giving commands.

scholarly journals A linguagem dos blogs: um gênero textual emergente

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
Edna Cristina S. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Multimodal Texts ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types

Adolescents all over the world have communicated with one another through the Internet by means of personal sites called Blogs, in which they say what they think and feel about life, and interact electronically with people from different places. This is a new mode of literacy which is leading adolescents to writing spontaneously about diverse topics. They use multimodal texts in which they integrate different types of semiosis. In this paper, we will examine the language of this new genre according to critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1992), genre analysis (Bakhtin, 1992) and systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1985).

scholarly journals Creation of Internet Relay Chat Nicknames and Their Usage in English Chatroom Discourse

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ecker
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Relay Chat ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
A Current

In a chat discourse it is not always clear who is chatting with whom; automatic discourse analysis is especially problematic. It is important to identify the users' nicknames in the written discourse to find out the receivers of the chat messages. But the linguistic possibilities in nickname creation, and also of using them in the discourse, are various. To study how nicknames are created and used in the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), logs of 13 channels consisting of 8937 public chat messages and 7936 unique nicknames were analyzed in detail. The paper shows, among other things, the basic structure of IRC nicknames, of which parts-of-speech group nicknames are compounded, and which parts-of-speech of a nickname are omitted within the chat discourse. This knowledge leads to a better prediction as to whether there is a link between a current logged-in user and the examined word in discourse, which can be a shortened or creatively changed form of a nickname.

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