Lecture 7: Discourse Jarmo Sarkkinen. 08/02/20062 Discourse IS NOT a verbal expression in speech or writing a conversation a process of reasoning.

Lecture 7:Discourse

Jarmo Sarkkinen

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Discourse

IS NOT

a verbal expression in speech or writing a conversationa process of reasoning

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Structure/action

Structure

People in a society/group considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships

Interaction

We do something in practice as part of this system

Social constraints of action/determinants

Imposed by the structure

These constrain/enable human relations as part of action

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Key issues

• Influence• Sources of power• Relations of struggle• Means of struggle• Representational practice• Social practice• Production/reproduction of structures• Transformation of structures?

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Interpretationand

construction ofmeanings

The role of others

Meaning

Representation

Meaning

Circumstancesof interpretation

Interpreter

Other interpreters

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Verbal and visualrepresentations

• Verbal representations (produced in talk)• Visual representations• Visual representations constrain discussions

more than verbal representations• Some visual representations constrain

discussions more than others• Grammar of visual representations may explain

this

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3-D notion of discourse

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Explanation

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The surface view

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Dimensions of discourse

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Constituents of discourse

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Assignment

1) What classifications are used in verbal representations constructed in talk?

2) How verbal and visual representations are interpreted and constructed in talk?

3) What constraints can be recognized?