DISCUSSING DISCOURSE

The use of language is of paramount importance in communication and maintenance of human society. Language is used for many purposes at different places and times. It is also used in different media like speech and writing among others. This paper examines series of explorations in the analysis of discourse. Such a process looks into the process of examining and analysing language in use so as to cover their underlying meanings, power dynamics, and social implications. In this paper, language has been seen as a discourse which deals with the co-occurrence of two or more interlocutors, Furthermore, it has to do with conversational ability beyond sentence to sequence of discourse. The main focus of his paper therefore is the exploration of the use of discourse on a functional basis and how such can be analysed, This is together with the linguistic resources in addition to the utilization of the pragmatic context of situation.