During the 1956–1962 window, discourse analysis coalesced around treating talk as a social action that can be systematically examined through structured qualitative methods. Researchers emphasized flexible interviewing techniques to elicit in-depth discourse and scrutinized dialogic structure, turn-taking, and the role of questioning in meaning-making. This period foregrounded how talk constructs social realities and shaped subsequent research agendas. Historical Significance: The era integrated pragmatic and rhetorical perspectives into discourse analysis, highlighting speech acts, metaphor use, and argument structure as central analytic anchors. By linking everyday speech to public address and social action, these developments established enduring analytic lenses that continued to guide discourse-analytic inquiry across disciplines.