Damin Essays

  • Discourse Analysis In Spoken Language

    3076 Words  | 13 Pages

    Discourse analysis has a growing importance within linguistic studies. Conversation analysis focuses specifically on the study of spoken language. One specific field is the use of linguistic cues for the recognition of personality. Can the idiolect (all of the specific properties that make up an individual’s language usage) tell us something about the personality of the speaker? Can speech analysis lead to personality definition? Traditionally questionnaires have been used to investigate people’s