Manor Bank is less than five minutesâ walk from Northumbria City Campus East and is an excellent location to access all Northumbria Universityâs buildings, meaning whatever youâre studying youâll always be close to your department.
For other uses, see Discourse (disambiguation). Discourse (from Latin discursus, running to and from) denotes written and spoken communications: In semantics and discourse analysis: Discourse is a conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication.
(2) More broadly, discourse is the use of spoken or written language in a social context. Discourse studies, says Jan Renkema, refers to the discipline devoted to the investigation of the relationship between form and function in verbal communication (Introduction to Discourse Studies, 2004).