Traduceţi-mi textul din engleză în română...................... Studying discourses seems to be an endless occupation, mostly because of the different
approaches to the concept of ‘discourse’, but also because of the ever changing media
and contexts where discourses take place. Our attention has always been drawn to the
idea that discourses are social interactions which leave traces in our lives. Thus, we feel
close to the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approaches on the analysis of such
interactions, mainly to the detection of the social profile of the actants, and the tools that
seem to be the most appropriate to our goal are, in our opinion, the pragmalinguistic
markers present in discourses. As a new kind of medium – the Internet – is gaining
over the others (or it only seems to gain!), we will therefore pay attention to what
happens there, too. Being a study trying to determine the level of chances one could
have to establish patterns in such a dynamic activity like the discourse, we don’t think
of identities, but of generic profiles, types of individuals, as they come on the basis of
their habits in linguistic communication. As it is not (yet!) an applied study, there will
be no corpus exploited in it, and the method will largely resemble a contemplation of
common sense observations already made in discourse analysis of all kinds and in the
field of pragmalinguistics. We are just at the beginning of an attempt to verify whether
such (discursive) social profiles as those described above can be extracted by means of
automatic tools (NLP tools) from discursive interactions taking place online. Journey
with us and be prepared to share our joy as to whether the conclusions will be
satisfactory!