SPHERE OF INTEREST OF DISCOURSE ANALYSTS

The range of inquiry of discourse analysis not only covers linguistic issues, but
is also concerned with other matters, such as: enabling computers to
comprehend and produce intelligible texts, It might be defined as prior
knowledge of typical situations which enables people to understand the
underlying meaning of words in a given text.
Discourse analysts carefully scrutinize universal circumstances of the
occurrence of communicative products, resulting in user - friendly design of
documents. One other sphere of life of particular interest to applied linguistists
is the judicature and its language which is incomprehensible to most common
citizens, especially due to pages long sentences, as well as participate in real
life conversations and produce native - like communicative products is the
domain of discourse analysis. Last but not least, influence of gender on
language production and perception is also examined.
APLICATION OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TO TEACHING TEXT
INTERPRETATION
The clear understanding of writing is reliant on not only what the author put in
it, but also on what a reader brings to this process. McCarthy points out that
reading is an exacting action which involves recipient's knowledge of the world,
experience, ability to infer possible aims of discourse and evaluate the
reception of the text.
Consequently, scholars dealing with text analysis redefined the concept of
schemata dividing it into two: content and formal, because it denotes the
knowledge of the structure and organization has to paid to aspects concerning
the whole system of a text, as well as crucial grammar structures and lexical
items.