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Submitted by dygkrks on January 3, 2008
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Discourse is composed of coherent units of sentences, propositions, words and speech acts. The analysis of discourse basicly refers to the analysis of those sentences that become through frequent use, ideological character or historical significance the main framework of all the other conversations. In other words, it refers to the systematic analysis of linguistic structures, although the very first studies of discourse analysis could not offer this beyond the sentence level. Why do I prefer to use sentence level refers to the fact that discourse analysis also has links with the wider social environment not just with the linguistic characters. From this kind of perspective one can argue that discourse analysis accepts that the meaning is not transferred as a thing, but is being created under influence of extralinguistic factors on denotative meanings in course of sending and reception'. (Ghiglione et al. 1985: 8 ) (1) . In that sense, linking with sociology, semiotics and other disciplines, its role enlarged by including not only the objective transfer of knowledge using language but also expressing the subjectivity (especially of semiologic processes) of the parties engaged in the conversation process. When it meets with sociology, language also becomes something which is used for the analysis of power relations. As Ducrot points out; "language includes catalogue of all human interrelations, all roles, that the speaker can choose for himself and to impose on addressee. It is not possible to reduce the function of language to the transfer of information". (Ducrot, 1972) (2).
I would like to draw on discursive construction of the term citizen' or the concept of citizenship' in media by referring mostly to the social aspect of discourse analysis. I believe that discourse is not only related to the interrelated words, speeches that form empty texts waiting for people to fill them in, but rather it is shaped according to the changing...
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