Actuality of the theme: Discourse analysis is a rapidly growing and evolving field. Current research in this field now flows from numerous academic disciplines that are very different from one another. Included, of course, are the disciplines in which models for understanding and methods for analyzing, discourse first developed, such as linguistics, anthropology, and philosophy? But also included are disciplines that have applied and thus often extended such models and methods to problems within their own academic domains, such as communication, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and artificial intelligence3 Given this disciplinary diversity, it is no surprise that the terms "discourse" and "discourse analysis" have different meanings to scholars in different fields4.
The importance of conversational context for the purpose of recognizing a speaker’s speech act (and in so doing, identifying the intention or function of an utterance within a conversation) is widely acknowledged in all fields related to the understanding of natural language. The disciplines that make claims to the study of discourse are extremely cosmopolitan. The interdisciplinary nature of this research has meant a need to read widely in the literature of a variety of sub-fields of linguistics, the philosophy of language, sociology, ethnography, discourse-based linguistics and cognitive psychology.
The aim of the theme:to point out patterns of behavior that are repeatedly to be found in the data, and in so doing to discover something new about the nature of conversational behavior as shown by the interplay of speech acts, to examine the problems concerning the notions ‘discourse’ and speech acts in spontaneous discourse.
Tasks of the theme:
To study what does discurs analyses distinguishes;