Origin of Discorse:

Originally the word discorse comes frome Latin, 'discursus’,which means conversations or
speech as a noun it can mean verbal communication,talk,formal speech or writing on a subject
and unit of text used by linguistic phenomena that range over more than one sentence.

What is Discorse Analysis:

Discourse analysis is a research method for studying written or spoken language in relation to
its social context. It aims to understand how language is used in real life situations. Discorse
means any written and spoken communication between the people on some serious issue or
some discussion is serious. The good discorse analysis is only done with complete text.

Basic purposes of Discorse:

To inform: It means to give information about something like news papers are informed us
about daily updates, and if we will to create an email accont, the instructions and rules that are
informing us how to create an account.

To persuade: It means to convence someone to think that you are thinking. Advertisement,
posters and comercial are the example of persuading like through comercial of any company
they are convencing us to think the same that they are thinking.

To entertain: It means to amuse someone to bring pleasure for someone through different
jokes and riddles.

There are three characteristics of discorse.

It must be formal: It means a discorse must be on good topic.

It must be logical: It means the organization must be good the structure must be good the
grammar must be following good rules and sentences.

It must be organized: It means discorse must be following some reasoning.

Examples of discorse:
Literary criticism is the good example of discorse. When a critic do criticized on any topic so
he must be following every characteristics of discorse, the language which a critic uses is
formal ideas are raged they are organized and they are entirely in logical manner and
coherence is there formal sentences and lines are there it means a writer is following every
characteristics of discorse. For exalpe Poetics by Aristolte is also a good example of
discorse in this book Aristotle gives his views about tragedy, epic and these all done with
very much organized, logical and formal way. So we can simply say criticism in general way
is a example of discorse.

Factors influence discorse:

Writer’s culture: It means a writer’s culture is depicts in his writing,discorse.

Social environment: Social environment also seen in the writer’s discorse.

Personal experience : It means writer’s experience is depicts in his discorse,writing and

spoken communication.