1. Different approaches to Discourse analysis:
1- A formal approach to discourse language above the level of
the clause or sentence. Understand the kinds of rules and
conventions that govern the ways we join clauses and
sentences together to make text.
2. A functional approach to discourse. Language in use. How
people use language to do things in different kinds of
situations and how we interpret what other people are trying
to do when they speak or write
3. A social approach to discourse. Social practice. The way we
use language is tied up with the way we construct different
social identities and relationships and participate in different
kinds of groups and situations.
2. Thematization and his use.
Sentence word order is of capital importance for the
organization of the information. The same applies for the
order in which sentence are put into texts, because this order
will influenced the hearers or readers interpretation of the
whole discourse in question. The speaker or writer has to
choose a beginning point: what she puts first will influence the
interpretation of the text. This process, which has to do with
the linear organization of sentences and text, has been called
thematization.
