Let's start with what discourse is: https://literarydevices.net/discourse/.  So that means discourse analysis is the analysis of speech and verbal interactions.  Start by reading this: https://www.thoughtco.com/discourse-analysis-or-da-1690462.

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What is discourse analysis and how it's done:

Read:  https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/discourse-analysis/

• • The purposes and effects of different types of language

  • Cultural rules and conventions in communication

  • How values, beliefs and assumptions are communicated

  • How language use relates to its social, political and historical context

What speakers do in conversations:

Read:  https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/discourse-analysis-what-speakers-do-conversation

• • Framing conversations 

  • Turn taking 

  • Discourse markers 

  • Speech acts 

How to use discourse analysis: 

Read: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/research/guides/methods/discourse_analysis.htm

• • Content analysis = analyses content according to key variables

  • Narrative analysis = looks at the patterns people find in their lives and situations

  • Conversational analysis = looks at the structure of dialogue 

Static Analysis 

Great example of static analysis found here: 

Critical Discourse Analysis

"Critical Discourse Analysis is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance and inequality are enacted, reproduced and resisted by text and talk in the social and political context. With such dissident research, critical discourse analysts take explicit position, and thus want to understand, expose and ultimately to resist social inequality. "  Read the article here: https://is.cuni.cz/studium/predmety/index.php?do=download&did=100284&kod=JMM654 

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