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Below are a few sites which explain some of the basic aspects of discourse analysis. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/discourse.htm http://bank.rug.ac.be/da/da.htm http://www.eamonfulcher.com/discourse_analysis.html It is important to realize what each of these different kinds of analyses have in common. All of them employed the same basic idea, which is that language use is context dependent. There is no generalized form of language which we tend to use all the time. The type of language we produce is always dependent on the context and the subject area. This generalization was brought in to ESP under the idea that people do use language for specific purposes. It is not only true that language use is linked to specific contexts but people themselves seem to exist within a limited range of contexts as well. That is, when very few people actually use the full range of contexts which might be available to them. For language learners, this is even more true. 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