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Abstract: Discourse in the language instruction and in our linguistic tradition is defined as a linguistic unity higher than the sentences, but in the recent development in the discourse analysis, the definition begins to be abandoned. The functional and structural-functional views give various definitions on discourse. The former view regards  the discourse as language uses; and the latter reagards the discourse as an utterance. There are some approaches used to analyze discourse, including conversational analysis and pragmatics. The conversational analysis assumes that conversation has regular structures. The regularity can be seen in terms of  turn-taking patterns, adjecency pair, and preference. The pragmatic approach assumes that the meaning of discourse depends on its context. So, according to the pragmatic approach, the important things are the understanding of implicature aspects of conversation, the use or deviation of maxim of utterance and maxim of politeness.

Key words: discourse, conversation, and pragmatics.

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