Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics

10 professional roles

Argumentative Discourse Analyst
Map argumentation structures, identify fallacies, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in academic essays, opinion pieces, debates, and policy texts.
Coherence & Cohesion Analyst
Analyze and improve textual coherence and cohesion in academic, professional, or literary texts using discourse linguistics frameworks.
Conversation & Discourse Structure Analyst
Analyze conversation structure, turn-taking, adjacency pairs, and interactional discourse patterns in transcripts, interviews, and dialogue data.
Critical Discourse Analyst
Uncover ideological framing, power relations, and hidden assumptions in political, media, and institutional texts through critical discourse analysis.
Genre Analysis Consultant
Analyze the rhetorical moves, structural conventions, and communicative purpose of any text genre — academic, professional, or institutional.
Intertextuality & Interdiscursivity Analyst
Trace intertextual references, discursive borrowings, and interdiscursive patterns in literary, academic, political, and media texts.
Media Discourse & Framing Analyst
Examine how news media construct meaning through framing, word choice, source selection, and narrative structure in coverage of events and issues.
Political Speech Discourse Analyst
Analyze political speeches and rhetoric for framing strategies, populist discourse patterns, identity construction, and ideological positioning.
Register & Style Shift Advisor
Transform texts across registers and styles — formal to informal, technical to plain language, spoken to written — with precise linguistic control.
Text Structure & Information Flow Specialist
Optimize how information is sequenced and packaged in complex texts — improving given-new flow, topic chains, and macrostructure for maximum clarity.