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  • Essay / Discourse Analysis in Socio-Political and Social Language

    Interaction/relationship has proven fruitful for the study of linguistics as discourse and its communicative purposes. Hyme, while recognizing the contributions of great anthropological linguistics, such as Boas, Goodenough, Malinowski, Lévi-Strauss, Firth, Greenberg, Sapir, etc., also laid the foundations of sociolinguistics. Their precursors like Gumperz, Brown, Bernstein and Bright adopted a new methodology where not only linguistic discourse, like stylistics, verbal/written art, but equal importance is given to social, political, cultural and historical significance, and how these things can be used systematically in language to study the effects of language. Furthermore, Pike's tagmemic approach to language and human behavior provides a basis for new developments in discourse analysis (Pike, 1967), which provide insight into the discourse analysis of narratives in languages indigenous people (Grimes, 1975; Longacre, 1977). In Europe, in 1964, text linguistics or text grammar, by Hartmann and Harris (1952), developed the analysis of linguistic discourse into a new generative-transformational approach to text grammar.