and other aspects of interaction Genres of discourse (various types of discourse in politics, the media, education, science, business, etc.) The relations between discourse and the emergence of syntactic structure The relations between text (discourse) and context The relations between discourse and power The relations between discourse and interaction The relations between discourse and cognition and memory Lexical density Prominent academics Jan Blommaert Teun van Dijk Norman Fairclough Michel Foucault Heidi E. Hamilton Barbara Johnstone Sinfree Makoni Jonathan Potter Deborah Schiffrin Deborah Tannen Margaret Wetherell Ruth Wodak Political discourse Political discourse is the text and talk of professional politicians or political institutions, such as presidents and prime ministers and other members of government, parliament or political parties, both at the local, national and international levels, includes both the speaker and the audience. Political discourse analysis is a field of discourse analysis which focuses on discourse in political forums (such as debates, speeches, and hearings) as the phenomenon of interest. Policy analysis requires discourse analysis to be effective from the post-positivist perspective. Political discourse is the formal exchange of reasoned views as to which of several alternative courses of action should be taken to solve a societal problem. Corporate discourse Corporate discourse can be broadly defined as the language used by corporations. It encompasses a set of messages that a corporation sends out to the world (the general public, the customers and other corporations) and the messages it uses to communicate within its own structures (the employees and other stakeholders). See also Actor (policy debate) Critical discourse analysis Dialogical analysis Discourse representation theory Frame analysis Communicative action Essex School of discourse analysis Ethnolinguistics Foucauldian discourse analysis Interpersonal communication Linguistic anthropology Narrative analysis Pragmatics Rhetoric Sociolinguistics Statement analysis Stylistics (linguistics) Worldview References External links DiscourseNet. International Association for Discourse Studies The Discourse Attributes Analysis Program and Measures of the Referential Process. Linguistic Society of America: Discourse Analysis, by Deborah Tannen Discourse Analysis by Z. Harris Daniel L. Everett, Documenting Languages: The View from the Brazilian Amazon Statement concerning James Loriot, p. 9 A discourse analysis related international conference You can find some information and events related to Metadiscourse Across Genres by visiting MAG 2017 website Systemic functional linguistics Applied linguistics Sociolinguistics Translation studies Postmodernism Postmodern theory