ABSTRACT
It is a known fact that Discourse Analysis is the analysis of language in use. This work showed how discourse analysis and pragmatic elements can be used in decoding facts and foregrounded information in the Holy Bible especially Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman. The discourse elements such as: participants, context, turn-taking, exchange structure, reference, presupposition, inference, intention were used to bring out the foregrounded information in the conversation. In conclusion, we were able to show that addressee deduced or inferred more information from addressor’s utterance beyond what the original intention might have been.ABSTRACT
It is a known fact that Discourse Analysis is the analysis of language in use. This work showed how discourse analysis and pragmatic elements can be used in decoding facts and foregrounded information in the Holy Bible especially Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman. The discourse elements such as: participants, context, turn-taking, exchange structure, reference, presupposition, inference, intention were used to bring out the foregrounded information in the conversation. In conclusion, we were able to show that addressee deduced or inferred more information from addressor’s utterance beyond what the original intention might have been.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 General Introduction
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Scope and delimitation
1.4 Justification
1.5 Methodology
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Discourse
2.3 Discourse Analysis
2.4 Elements of discourse analysis
2.4.1Participants
2.4.2 Context
2.4.3 Turn-taking
2.4.4 Exchange structure
2.4.4.1 Initiation, response and feedback
2.4.4.2 Adjacency pairs
2.4.5 Topic
2.5 Pragmatic concepts of discourse
2.5.1 Presupposition
2.5.2 Implicature
2.5.3 Reference
2.5.4 Inference
2.5.5 Intention
2.6 Data description
2.6.1 Jesus Christ
2.6.2 The Samaritan woman .
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Datum 1
3.3 Datum 2
3.4 Datum 3
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Summary
4.2 Findings
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