#discourse analysis

• Anacoluthon — An intentional or involuntary break in the syntactic structure of a sentence or phrase, consisting of the unexpected interruption of the initial construction and its continuation with another grammatical structure uncoordinated with the first. Although normatively it constitutes a word-order error, in literature it represents a syntactic figure of speech masterfully used to reproduce the authenticity of spoken language, emotional agitation, or a character's stream of consciousness.
• Anacoluthic — Pertaining to anacoluthon or characterized by a structural syntactic break; said of a style, utterance, or sentence in which the initial grammatical construction is abandoned mid-way to give room to a new syntactic configuration. This term qualifies phenomena of discontinuity in discourse, being frequently used in the analysis of modern literary texts and transcriptions of spontaneous colloquial speech.
• Hypophora — A rhetorical figure or stylistic device consisting of posing a question and immediately answering it oneself, used to capture the audience's attention and animate the discourse; hypophora. In modern linguistic analysis, the term describes a simulated dialogue within a monologue, serving to anticipate objections.
• Self-deprecation — The act of self-deprecating and its result; an attitude or discursive manifestation marked by sharp and constant self-irony. In psychological analyses, the process of self-deprecation can function as a coping mechanism or a structural self-defense against social anxiety, whereas in criticism it represents a refined stylistic device used to deconstruct the false solemnity of the text.