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Topics:

• Charting of Colons and Clauses
• Rhetorical Situation; Cultural Background; Schemas, Scripts, and Frames
• Macrosegmentation; Texttypes
• Macrostructures and Meta-structures; Themes
• Structural and Orthographic Paragraph Analysis
• Constituent Structure Analysis
• Foregrounding/Backgrounding; Salience Levels; Verb Ranking
  • Imperfects in Mark
• Coherence & Transitions
• Discourse Functions of Articles, Pronouns, and Conjunctions
• Rhetorical Patterns (Cyclical, Chiastic, Spider Web, etc.)
• Influence of Rhetorical Situation
• Peak
• Participant Reference (Subject and Object Tracking)
• Clause Word Order
• Intertextuality; Quotations and Quotation Formulas

Bibliographies:

• Short Bibliography by Bruce Terry
• Longer Bibliography

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Discourse analysis is the study of elements of a text that occur on or affect or are affected by the text on a level above that of the sentence.

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