GENERAL LINGUISTICS

WHAT CDA IS ABOUT- A SUMMARY OF ITS HISTORY, IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND ITS DEVELOPMENTS Wodak, R.(2001). What CDA is about- a summary of its history, important concepts and its developments  The text starts stablishing what is critical linguistics and critical discourse analysis, that in some way are treated interchangeably, it emphasizes in CDA with a particular interest in the relation between language and power. According to the author, it can be said that CL and CDA are highly concerned with analyzing structural relationships of power, equity and control manifested in language. It is stated that in discourse analysis CDA is based not only on spoken or written texts, it also requires going beyond texts, analyzing different issues like social processes and structure that gives rise to the production of a text and also the meaning that is created through interaction with texts. Critical discourse analysis emerged in the early 1990 with a symposium in Amsterdam where some ...

CLASSROOM DISCOURSE Cazden,S. ; Gernsbacher, M.A.; & Goldman, S.R.(2003). Classroom Discourse. Different issues have been applied about the quality of classroom discourse in the las 20 th century, classrooms are no longer addressed as passive ones, or learning by heart activities, it is now focus on developing communication abilities, emphasizing learning by doing. It is said that teachers in the classrooms are in charge of developing higher order thinking     where the students can express, explain their reasoning and work cooperatively respecting other points of view but at the same time questioning about those. According to the text, the conception about discourse in the classroom has change, it has being used to achieve communicative goals in the classroom, and also the result has been shown in the changes in the curriculum and assessment methods. The chapter is divided into different sessions: lessons, variations in discourse features, talk with p...

WHAT IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS? Talking about discourse analysis there are different points of view depending on the perception of the people; the majority of them linguists. They found themselves involved in a variety of topics, sometimes the only thing these topics have in common is that they are related to language and their effects. According to Johnstone, B. (2008) Discourse analysis is the study of language in everyday sense in which most people use the term. When linguists talk about discourse analysis some of them see it as a mass noun: discourse, it means the way people speak of other things, on the other hand scholars influenced by Foucault, tend to use the word discourse as a count noun, taking this word as ideology or ways of thinking, at the end these two conceptions are much related. The uses of discourse analysis are innumerable; it is mostly based on descriptions of situations where language is involved. According to the author discourse analysts are always askin...

Poster design by Yenny Bautista and Sonia Barrera, it is related to applied linguistics and its implications; was developed in a session where we discussed different topics related to language. In the poster are some characteristics of applied linguistics, definitions, disciplines involved and selected authors that investigate about this field.

BEING A LINGUIST Cristal, D.(2009) Being a Linguist. Chapter 1. “The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”  Ludwig Wittgenstein When somebody talks about language and the words related to that giant term, that enclosures many concepts and perceptions, has to take into account everybody’s worlds and their ways to conceive life.   In this first chapter, Crystal,D (2009).   Generally exposed how language is an amazing field from his own point of view and experience. First, the author considered himself a linguist not as a person that is fluent in many languages, Even though it is mentioned that it is important to have a great amount of vocabulary to manage a language, for him a linguist is just someone that is delighted by those. Everybody that is interested in linguistics is because enjoys having contact with their surroundings, language is present everywhere. According to the author, linguists are people that are paying attention how everythin...