Term: Discourse Analysis

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Discourse Analysis is the area of linguistics that is concerned with how we build up meaning in the larger communicative rather than grammatical units; meaning in a text, paragraph, conversation, etc, rather than in a single sentence.

See Also: Semantics; Syntax; Etymology

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Grammar Topic: Discourse

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