Hacia dónde va el análisis del discurso

Abstract

[Abstract] This paper presents the most common ideas currently being debated in Discourse Analysis, critically highlighting those which, although to varying degrees, are essential for the development of the two main lines of discursive analysis today: a more language-oriented Discourse Analysis, and other that has a more communicative and functional purpose. The points included for presentation are next: consideration of the message as a process inserted in different contexts, with participants whose social roles are relevant to the investigation of certain types of speech; the relationship between form and meaning in the communicative use as a non-arbitrary process; the relevance of the analysis of genres and their relation to social practices; the critical dimension in the analysis of discourses; discourse considered as social and/or socio-cognitive practice; the debate on the choice of methodology for analysis (ethnographic, qualitative or quantitative one); and, finally, the degree of interdisciplinarity in discursive analysis.