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This paper is about the most general methodological problems of Discourse Analysis: The meaning and use of metalinguistic terms as "discourse" and "text", the scope of different schools and the incidence of orality/literacy distinction. the author suggests a global outlook of D. A. [...]Abstract
Although modern linguistics has (theoretically) supported the primacy of the analysis of oral language over written texts, the comparison of studies based on the two kinds of analysis show the tradition of studies on many aspects of oraility. This paper, based on the statement above, [...]