Year | definition | source |
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1995 | "Discourse analysis is a relatively new discipline, which attempts to identify and describe linguistic regularities in utterances which cannot be accounted for at a grammatical level (i.e. they relate above the sentence level)." | Carter, Ronald (1995, p.39) |
2006 | "... focuses on knowledge about language beyond the word, clause, phrase and sentence that is needed for successful communication. It looks at patterns of language across texts and considers the relationship between language and the social and cultural contexts in which it is used." | Paltridge, Brian (2006, p.2) |