ALSO: Dara, I was "where are they now"-ing you, and I came up with a paper that starts thusly. Yours?
"Discourse analysis is part of the study of how humans use language; it is a method for examining how we make sense of written and spoken language. Unlike other areas of linguistics, which are often focused on morphology, grammar, and syntax—smaller units of language—discourse analysis is concerned with "how it is that language-users interpret what other language-users intend to convey" (Yule 139)..."
It mentions Grice later on, whom you mentioned to me a few months ago. Just curious to see.
UPDATE: If you don't believe me, you can do the Google search yourself
UPDATE x2: I don't mean to freak you out or anything, but it appears that there's someone on the other side of the country with your name doing exactly what you're interested in. Frrrrrrrrrrrrrreaky.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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