On Monday, we spent a good part of class discussing discourse analysis and how it can be used in a non-trivial way. To use discourse analysis in a non-trivial way means how we can use discourse analysis as a part of our everyday life, such as in our professional and personal relationships. I then found out that I have been using discourse analysis already without even realizing it simply by having conversations, discussions, etc. While there are still certain parts of discourse analysis that I am still not certain about, it is helpful to know that discourse analysis can be as simple as having a conversation.
We then acted out an example of discourse analysis from the Bloome textbook. It was helpful to act out this scenario in class and to discuss the “analytic moves” made by each of the students. When I first read this in the textbook, I never considered the importance of things such as control of the floor, use of pronouns, tone of voice, just to name a few. It was also helpful to hear what other people had to say about their character. I feel that if we do more examples like the one in the Bloome textbook, I would be able to get a much better understanding of what discourse analysis is and how it functions in a classroom setting. An additional way to help me understand this concept better would be if a few people in the class wrote about a recent discourse they were a part of and we discussed it like we did with the textbook example.
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