In the past, linguistics has focused more on the study of language as a system than on how it appears in specific texts. Discourse Analysis (DA) has nonetheless existed for more than 60 years as a hub for the interdisciplinary study of conversation....

One branch of linguistics that is the intersection of different disciplines is considered as Discourse analysis or Discourse studies. For centuries, interlinguistic relations have been the subject of research in such areas as rhetoric, public speaking, stylistics, and literature. In the twentieth...