The word discourse in linguistic terms means language in use. Discourse analysis may be defined as the process of performing text or language analysis, which involves text interpretation and knowing the social interactions. Discourse analysis may involve dealing with morphemes, n-grams, tenses, verbal aspects, page layouts, and so on. Discourse may be defined as the sequential set of sentences.
In most cases, we can interpret the meaning of the sentence on the basis of the preceding sentences.
Consider a discourse John went to the club on Saturday. He met Sam." Here, He refers to John.
Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) has been developed to provide a means for performing AR. A Discourse Representation Structure (DRS) has been developed that provides the meaning of discourse with the help of discourse referents and conditions. Discourse referents refer to variables used in first-order logic and things under consideration in a discourse. A discourse representation...