Holistic Discourse Analysis

The title Holistic Discourse Analysis is chosen to highlight the conviction that linguistic analysis properly deals with wholes and not with fragments. Discourse analysis, properly developed and practiced, implies analysis of the lower-level concerns that may be collectively referred to as the morphosyntax. Discourse analysis cannot be carried out in any language without knowledge of the morphosyntax. On the other hand, the morphosyntax itself demands the insights discoverable in discourse analysis as its rationale. We claim that the whole determines the part and that most of the whys are…