Editing Discourse analysis (section)

==Perspectives==
The following are some of the specific theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches used in linguistic discourse analysis:

*[[Applied linguistics]], an interdisciplinary perspective on linguistic analysis<ref>{{Cite journal |last=James |first=Carl |date=June 1993 |title=What is applied linguistics? |journal=International Journal of Applied Linguistics |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=17–32 |doi=10.1111/j.1473-4192.1993.tb00041.x |issn=0802-6106}}</ref>
* [[Aron K. Barbey#Cognitive neuroscience of human intelligence|Cognitive neuroscience of discourse comprehension]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Barbey |first1=Aron K. |last2=Colom |first2=Roberto |last3=Grafman |first3=Jordan |date=January 2014  |title=Neural mechanisms of discourse comprehension: a human lesion study |journal=Brain |volume=137 |issue=1 |pages=277–287 |doi=10.1093/brain/awt312 |issn=1460-2156 |pmc=3954106 |pmid=24293267}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/204693 |title=Researchers map brain areas vital to understanding language |last=Yates |first=Diana |website=news.illinois.edu |publisher=University of Illinois |access-date=2019-11-25}}</ref>
*[[Cognitive psychology]], studying the production and comprehension of discourse.
*[[Conversation analysis]]
*[[Critical discourse analysis]]
*[[Discursive psychology]]
*[[Emergent grammar]]
*[[Ethnography |Ethnography of communication]]
*[[Functional theories of grammar|Functional grammar]]
*[[Interactional sociolinguistics]]
*[[Mediated stylistics]]
*[[Pragmatics]]
*[[Response based therapy]] (counselling)
*[[Rhetoric]]
*[[Stylistics (linguistics)]]
*[[Sublanguage]] analysis
*[[Tagmemics]]
*[[Text linguistics]]
*[[Variation analysis]]

Although these approaches emphasize different aspects of language use, they all view language as social interaction and are concerned with the social contexts in which discourse is embedded.

Often a distinction is made between 'local' structures of discourse (such as relations among sentences, propositions, and turns) and 'global' structures, such as overall topics and the schematic organization of discourses and conversations. For instance, many types of discourse begin with some kind of global 'summary', in titles, headlines, leads, abstracts, and so on.