Essays on Discourse Analysis

Some jargon becomes antiquated after a few years, but one term withstood the test of time. Before OK arrived at the meaning it has today, it had numerous other connotations. Perhaps OK is the longest running joke in the history of comedy. In a short…

What is a “discourse community”? Linguistics professor John Swales characterizes a discourse community as a community with common goals, methods of communication within the community, has different mechanisms to disseminate information, employs multiple genres as a way to further communication within the community, has “specific…