Semantic systems in english

SEMANTIC SYSTEMS IN ENGLISH
Contents
INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………..……4
CHAPTER I. LEXICAL UNITS: THEIR PROPERTIES AND
SPECIFIC FEATURES ……………………………………….……........14
1.1 The function of lexical units...………..……………………………...…..14
1.2 Typologies of meaning. lexical and grammatical meaning …..……….…17
CHAPTER II. LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS:
DEFINING DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURE………….….6
2.1 Basic units and discourse models ………………….………….……...….6
2.2 Defining discourse analysis in English………………………….……......9
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………...…..21
THE LIST OF USED LITERATURE……………………………….......24

Introduction
Lexical Discourse very often depend on lexis. Any model of discourse is in need of identifying its underlying units, the so-called “building blocks” of the discourse structure. Several reasons account for this need. Therefore language users need grammar to deliver a sentence. There is a language that cannot be understood directly, so it takes time to understand the intentions of the language conveyed. Widdowson states: we can now use label discourse analysis to refer to the investigation of the way sentences are applied communicatively. In the execution of the social action, the discourse is defined roughly by the user of the sentence. Stubbs says: discourse analysis is a very ambiguous term. This directly refers to attempting to study the organizing of language over sentences, and for that, we need to study larger linguistic units, such as exchange of conversations or written texts. ¹Structural descriptions characterize discourse at several levels or dimensions of analysis and in terms of many different units, categories, schematic patterns, or relations. Discourse studies look at the form and function of language in conversation beyond its small grammatical pieces such as phonemes and morphemes. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language, in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein successive sentences or utterances hang together is discourse. In producing and processing discourse, meaning is inseparable from whom, where, why, etc. it is communicated. The structural view of discourse analysis places discourse in a hierarchy of language structures, thus fostering the view that one can describe language in a unitary way that continues unimpeded from morpheme to clause to sentence to discourse. Discourse analysis is necessarily the analysis of language in use.