About Discourse Analysis

Discourse Analysis is a free, dedicated spreadsheet app for annotating transcribed stories. Tag discourse features by predicate phrase and draw relationships between clauses in an intuitive workspace.

Who It's For

Discourse Analysis is designed for missionaries, linguists, translators, language researchers, and fieldworkers seeking an intuitive, offline app for discourse structure analysis.

Key Features

  • Homepage to manage and organize transcribed texts
  • Categorize texts by discourse type: Narrative, Explanatory, Procedural, Hortatory, Descriptive
  • Share texts with colleagues
  • Optional setting to manage texts categorized under different languages
  • Glossary of linguistic terms with definitions and examples
  • Support for five interface languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish
  • Annotate discourse on a predicate-phrase level with a structured spreadsheet interface
  • Easy-to-use drawing tool to connect and label clause relationships
  • Automatic saving and manual draft management
  • Custom filtering using user-defined conditions (AND/OR logic)
  • Export annotations to XLSX, PDF, and JPG formats

Interface

Discourse Analysis app homepage showing categorized folders on the left and a list of texts on the right. Options to add, duplicate, import, export, and delete texts are displayed at the top. Discourse Analysis app showing a chart where each predicate clause in a transcribed text is annotated with semantic categories and linked by labeled communication relations. Discourse Analysis app showing the filter tool, where users create custom conditions to find matching rows. The filter uses AND/OR logic to match semantic categories. Discourse Analysis glossary page displaying categorized linguistic devices with definitions and English examples. The glossary includes terms related to discourse structure, clause relationships, participant tracking, rhetorical devices, semantic roles, and grammatical options used in story annotation and discourse analysis. Discourse Analysis app settings page showing options to set app language, choose between traditional or functional grammar labels, and enable a language manager for organizing texts by language. The page also includes tools for customizing annotation values. Discourse Analysis app with a Tips and Shortcuts window open, displaying categorized advice on how to get the most out of the app. The Troubleshooting page includes help for both macOS and Windows users.

Support

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