Discourse Analysis

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1.      discourse analysis is one way to engage in a very important human task. The task is this: to think more deeply about the meanings we give people's words so as to make ourselves better, more humane people and the world a better, more humane place" (J. P. Gee, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, 2005).  (blackred/Getty Images)

source : http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/discanalysisterm.htm

2.      Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings. 

Source : https://faculty.washington.edu/mlg/courses/definitions/discourse.html

3.      Simple definition of Discourse the use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas or a long talk or piece of writing about a subject.

Source : http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discourse

4.      Discourse Definition foucault presents possibly the best definition of discourse. He says, “Systems of thoughts composed of ideas, attitudes, and courses of action, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak.”

Source : http://literarydevices.net/discourse/

5.      Discourse analysis is sometimes defined as the analysis of language 'beyond the sentence'. This contrasts with types of analysis more typical of modern linguistics, which are chiefly concerned with the study of grammar: the study of smaller bits of language, such as sounds (phonetics and phonology), parts of words (morphology), meaning (semantics), and the order of words in sentences (syntax). Discourse analysts study larger chunks of language as they flow together.

Source : http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/discourse-analysis-what-speakers-do-conversation

6.      The definition of analysis is the process of breaking down a something into its parts to learn what they do and how they relate to one another.

Source : http://www.yourdictionary.com/analysis

7.      Discourse analysis, as an approach to studying psychological phenomena, developed out of the ‘turn to language’ in social psychology in the 1970s and 1980s and the emergence of social constructionism.

Source : Eugenie Georgaca & Evrinomy Avdi

8.      Discourse analysis is a broad and diverse field, including a variety of approaches to the study of language, which derive from different scientific disciplines and utilize various analytical practices

Source : (Wetherell, Taylor, & Yates, 2001ab).

9.      Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is a general term for a number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event.The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_analysis

10.  discourse analysis is defined as (a) concerned with language use beyond the boundaries of a sentence/utterance, (b) concerned with the interrelationships between language and society and (c) as concerned with the interactive or dialogic properties of everyday communication.

Source : http://www.english.ugent.be/da

11.  Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language, in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose.

Source : https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/39688

12.  Definition of discourse since its introduction to modern science the term ‚discourse’ has taken various, sometimes very broad, meanings. In order to specify which of the numerous senses is analyzed in the following dissertation it has to be defined. Originally the word ‚discourse’ comes from Latin ‚discursus‚ which denoted ‚conversation, speech’. Thus understood, however, discourse refers to too wide an area of human life, therefore only discourse from the vantage point of linguistics, and especially applied linguistics, is explained here.

Source : http://www.anglozof.com/linguistics/discourse.htm

13.  Discourse analysis involves the study of both text and context. (according to schiffrin)

Source : (Laura Alba-Juez, perspective on Discourse Analysis: Theory and practice, 2009:8)

14.  Discourse analysis is the study of how language is actually used and its effects on the speakers.

Source : (Lidia Tanaka, Gender, language, and Culture: A Study of Japanise Television

Interview Discourse, 2004:3)

15.  In this chapter we present Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory (sometimes abbreviated to discourse theory). We draw mainly on their principal work, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), supplementing this with a number of texts that Laclau has written alone. Discourse theory aims at an understanding of the social as a discursive construction whereby, in principle, all social phenomena can be analysed using discourse analytical tools.

Source : Laclau and mouffe’s discourse analysis

16.  Discourse is generally used to designate the forms of representation, codes, conventions and habits of language that produce specific fields of culturally and historically located meanings. Michel Foucault's early writings ('The Order of Discourse', 1971; The Archaeology of Krlowledge, 1972) 

Source :https://faculty.washington.edu/mlg/courses/definitions/discourse.html

From above explanation,  the conclusion is discourse analysis can be interpreted as a way of understanding social interaction by analyzing the medium he uses, which is the language (Hetika Wulandari)