Harris’s distributional approach to discourse extended structural analysis beyond the sentence by examining distributional relationships and equivalent environments within connected text. It supplied the modern methodological label of discourse analysis while remaining narrower than later social, interactional, and critical discourse traditions.
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- Category of its source unitResearch & Analysis Methods
- DomainEvidence & Evaluation
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Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
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Research & Analysis Methods
Establishes procedures for collecting, coding, comparing or interpreting information for inquiry or analysis. Its contribution is a defensible route from observations or materials to an account, finding or interpretation.