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    The terms text and discourse have been –and still are– used ambiguously, and they are
    defined in different ways by different researchers. In this book we are going to use the
    term text to refer to the ‘purely’ linguistic material, and we are going to consider
    discourse in a broader sense, defining it as language in use, composed of text and
    context.

    2. Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis share some basic tenets and, while some
    authors make a distinction between them, others use both terms to mean the same.
    However, it may be said that “purely” Text Linguistic studies are more concerned
    with the text-internal factors (i.e. cohesion and coherence), while Discourse
    Analysis focuses its attention more on the text-external factors, without disregarding
    the text-internal ones. The history of these disciplines shows that research has
    evolved, in many cases, from the narrower scope of Text Grammar (and later, Text
    Linguistics) into the broader discipline of Discourse Analysis, and therefore both
    disciplines have merged. For this reason and for clarifying and practical purposes, we
    shall consider DA as a macro-discipline that includes several sub-approaches, among
    which the ‘purely’ text-linguistic ones can also be found.

    3. In this book we are going to touch on the main theoretical and practical tenets of the
    following traditions identified within discourse studies: Pragmatics, Conversation
    Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Ethnography of Communication, Variation
    Analysis and Narrative Analysis, Functional Sentence Perspective, Post-structural
    and Social Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis/Positive Discourse Analysis and
    Mediated Discourse Analysis.

    4. In order to learn about a given discipline, it is useful to look at what practitioners do.
    Discourse analysts explore the language of face-to-face conversations, telephone
    conversations, e-mail messages, etc., and they may study power relations, the
    structure of turn-taking, politeness strategies, the linguistic manifestation of racism or
    sexism, and many, many other aspects of language in use. The sky is the limit.

    5. Discourse analysts are interested in the actual patterns of use in naturally- occurring
    texts. These natural texts, once transcribed and annotated, are known as the corpus,
    which constitutes the basis for analysis. Thus, discourse analysts necessarily take a
    corpus-based approach to their research.

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