Coventry, United Kingdom

Discourse Studies

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.warwick.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Discourse
Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications:
Discourse Studies
Discourse Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of discourse analysis, especially articles that offer a detailed, systematic and explicit analysis of the structures and strategies of text and talk, their cognitive basis and their social, political and cultural functions. It specifically also publishes studies in conversation analysis. The journal was established in 1999 by Teun A. van Dijk.
Discourse
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
Homer, The Odyssey, Book 15, line 433. Pope's translation. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 137.
Discourse
We can no longer maintain any distinction between music and discourse about music, between the supposed object of analysis and the terms of analysis.
Bruce Horner (1999). Discourse. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.
Discourse
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
St. Francis de Sales, Letter upon Eloquence
Solar power is potentially an almost limitless resource. The sun provides enough energy in one minute to supply the world’s energy needs for one year. But turning this resource into affordable electricity is difficult – silicon-based solar cells still suffer from a decline in their effectiveness over time. Through her ERC-funded SOLARX project, Professor Hele Savin, of Aalto University in Finland, is investigating a possible route to solving this problem.
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