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
Pesticides are used around the world but can persist in the environment, contaminating drinking and irrigation water with toxic organic compounds. One example is Vietnam where herbicides and dioxins applied during the Vietnam war entered the water cycle, possibly leading to cancers and abnormalities in newborn babies.
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