Discourse analysis
Our researchers within the area of discourse analysis work with different written genres such as research articles, scientific reports and various types of news text.
The research is based on electronic corpora, both purpose-built and publicly available, as well as search-engine tools. The main focus is on knowledge construction in various disciplines, knowledge mediation to various audiences, as well as text-structuring and discursive norms.
Our corpus-based research also encompasses oral genres such as negotiations discourse, discourse strategies of argumentation, back-channeling and discourse-topic marking.