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Then I shall talk about the contributions from different disciplines to the development of this new trend in language study; and lastly I shall mention a few points on the applications of discourse analysis.
In my view, the emergence of discourse analysis can be seen as the manifestation of a sort of uneasiness among linguists with the present approaches to the study of language.
This was one contribution to the emergence and development of the trend which is now called Discourse Analysis, including the performance factors in the study of language.
By this short introduction I just wanted to show the relationship between speech act theory and the discourse analysis, the fact that in the description of language utterances, the language philosophers go beyond the logical semantics and into the context of situation for the description of speech act as acceptable or nonacceptable.
This involvement of the contextual and co-textual factors in the process of meaning negotiation can be seen as a further step towards broadening the scope of language study and development of discourse analysis.
What is of interest in text- linguistics in relation to discourse analysis is the attention to the functioning of language elements in interpersonal transactions within the framework of a text.
Discourse analysis can offer frameworks within which the special ways of language devices in literature text can be characterized(see, for example, Birch & OToole 1988).