The Importance Of Discourse Analysis: Semantics And Pragmatics

As a starting point, what we could see when we studied all the content from our Semantics and Pragmatics class, and when participated in our classmates’ presentations was that all the information from the books given by the teacher was interrelated and the main purpose of her was to let us explore all the topics until reaching the one which summarised all the previously learned: Discourse Analysis.

That is how we understood how important is to assure an appropriate and exact comprehension on a speech. However, there are some aspects to be considered when analysing a discourse like the structure of texts or utterances considering the linguistic content and the sociolinguistic context as it concerns with the interrelationships between language and society with the interactive everyday communication.

Also, we evidenced that learning and teaching a language there

Nevertheless, this has not changed the view Colombian teachers have about the language. In Colombia, pragmatic competence is only considered an auxiliary tool to explain grammar, or only to incorporate the culture in educative events, as bland as the classes since it is also seen apart from the language. This reflects that teachers are still fixed on the view as a core of the linguistic competence into the classroom. If they do not pass a grammar exam, they do not know english? Really? Language is only situated in a sheet of paper? Culture is only music and cities? It is okay to see that in the classes, but, let’s reflect how we use the language in our real life, what influences our language, why we use our language. In that way, we can have a blueprint about how language should really worked in