EPISODES AS UNITS OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract

1. Units of discourse analysis. One of the tasks of a sound theory of description of textual structures at various levels. In addition to the usual morphophonemic, syntactic, semantic or pragmatic units or categories of sentence grammars, the theory of discourse has introduced new notions, such as 'coherence ' , 'cohesion ' , 'topic ' , or 'theme'--explicated in so-called 'macrostructures ' , whereas the analysis of conversation makes use of such notions as 'turn ' or 'move'. Thus, more or less at a 'meso-level ' in between the unit of a clause or sentence on the one hand, and the unit of a text, discourse, or conversation as a whole, the notion of 'paragraph ' or 'episode ' has recently been discussed in various branches of discourse analysis (Chafe 1980, Longacre 1979, Hinds 1979). Roughly speaking, paragraphs or episodes are characterized as coherent sequences of sentences of a discourse, linguistically marked for beginning and/or end, and further defined in terms of some kind of

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