MEETING MINUTES DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AN ENGLISH PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT
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This study aimed at examining the discourse of the meeting minutes of a university
preparatory department as the verbal record of a social institution. The focus is on
the interaction of the academic staff members and understanding their relations as
well as the general communicative characteristics of the academic community.
Apart from the content of the written text, the linguistic formulations of the writer,
patterns, phrases, repeated speech acts, and the way the author introduces the piece
of written work are considered during the analysis process. To gather qualitative
data, the weekly reports of the meetings of a preparatory department were used as
research instruments. This article deals with teachers’ ability to read coherent texts
about their subject, comprehend them, and respond accordingly to the mentioned
decisions, actions, and announcements provided for them in written form. In regard
to their ability to understand the meeting minutes, the goal is to describe the effects
of linguistic patterns. In brief, the structure of the communication system and
communication components for the appropriate social interaction will be analyzed
