Questions tagged [discourse]
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Are most sentences said or written only once?
I have many times heard it claimed that the great majority of natural-language sentences that are ever said or written are said or written only once. For example, Steven Pinker, in The Language ...
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The concept of "taking turn" in Fairclough's (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis
I am currently reading Fairclough's (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a supplement to my research, that is, corpus-based CDA on nominal collocations in Russian news corpus.
I am trying to ...
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Stress, spirantization and other changes in the word "okay"
I'm a teenager from the Midwest. In the English language, many words have significant variance in their range of possible pronunciations. Some words may sound different from speaker to speaker in ...
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What is the use of Critical Discourse Analysis Theory?
Can Critical Discourse Analysis be used to analyse the speech acts in a given Speech, and simply interpret the different orientations that those Speech acts impose upon that Speech (like joy, ...
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Are there languages without fillers like "um" or "uh"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsMWbVrjucg&t=34s
According to this video (0:55) almost every language has those speech disfluencies. But ALMOST. Do languages exist that have no such sounds for ...
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Please help me identify discourse deixis
I am doing my linguistic analysis report but got stuck with finding discourse deixis. In this conversation:
"A: And then because of the difficulties of getting
public transport, if you're working ...
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Sudden silences in groups
We've all experienced a moment where a roomful of people are talking, and suddenly everyone falls silent. Sometimes no one is left talking. Sometimes one person is left talking at the original volume ...
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What are the differences between speech acts and implicatures?
Here's what I have come up with.
What I understand is that implicature is always indirect and not explicit, so the hearer must infer from the context.
Speech act, on the other hand, may be direct ...
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Do some communities prefer indirect discourses to direct discourses?
Jamaliah Mohd. Ali, in her research paper, says, "the use of indirectness in communication is an important aspect of Malay community life because one of its main intentions is conflict avoidance" (...
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Single term for words that maintain dialogue cohesion
I'm trying to find a single term for words that help maintain cohesion in a dialogue, such as:
A : How was the Lion King remake?
B : It was good.
A : And the Aladdin remake?
B : It ...
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Discourse/Rhetorical structure in poetic writings
There are several taxonomies for describing relations between rhetorical/discourse components in prose text (PDTB, RST, etc). Has anyone tried to describe the sort of relationships between elements ...
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Is ending a sentence with a possessive considered informal? [closed]
Does corpora show any genre preferences for ending sentences with a nominal possessive? Does it occur more in spoken and informal written texts than in academic texts?
I really appreciate your input.
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What is the difference between a discourse and a register?
Sorry if this is a stupid question. I just started studying linguistics today, so I'm kind of blundering through the subject at this point. I've been reading about various basic linguistic concepts ...
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By what can an anaphor be realized?
According to the definition I read on anaphors, it is an expression, which refers back to a word. As examples what this anaphoras can be I was given a pronoun and adverb:
Anaphor realized by a ...
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Sociolinguistics VS Rhetoric
Can anyone tell me major differences between rhetoric and sociolinguistics? And what theoretical commonalities they share?
I'm a rhetoric student, and I'm looking to go to grad school, but I'm not ...
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Abbot & Costello "Who's on First" with a pragmatic (or other linguistic) perspective? [closed]
I'm in my first year of the Master's study in applied linguistics, and I'm trying to come up with my research question, which will form the basis of my thesis topic. I've found the famous routine by ...
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Toulmin model of argumentation
I am studying the Toulmin model of argumentation to use it in the analysis of Presidential debates. I have tried to read many sources, but I couldn't really find an exact answer about which part ...
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If we can talk of "speech error", what do we call "narration error"?
Try as I might, I cannot find a term that technically describes errors in re-telling a story, sometimes known as Chinese whispers or by other similarly idiomatic expressions.
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Difference between discourse analysis and pragmatics
Could you explain for me what is the main difference between pragmatics in linguistics and discourse analysis? Both are related to study of use of language in real world.
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Are sentences the only constituents that "sentence adverbs" modify?
For those who came in late, a "sentence adverb" is a word that modifies an entire sentence rather than just the verb or predicate. A sentence adverb communicates speaker attitudes about the ...
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Algorithm for determining the subject of a NL sentence / question [duplicate]
I'm trying to write code that takes in a natural language sentence and determines what that sentence is about. Not from a list of possible subjects, but just from the input text, the NL sentence.
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Is there any evidence pro/contra Du Bois' Preferred Argument Structure (ergative patterning in discourse)?
In The Discourse Basis of Ergativity published in Language in 1987, John W. Du Bois proposed a theory which stated that (p. 850)
[universally] the distribution of new information vs. old ...
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How does language produce identities?
I've come to understand that language plays a central role in producing political identities such as "black", "white"; "man", "woman", "genderqueer"; "heterosexual", "queer". How exactly does language ...
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Which layers of the language is dealing with co-reference resolution and how to solve it computationaly?
Which layers of the language is dealing with co-reference resolution and what are the steps to solve this problem in NLP?
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Do any languages have clear morpho-syntactic constructions that mark backgrounding and foregrounding?
According to this article, http://www.ntdiscourse.org/2010/03/background-and-foreground-an-introduction/, "grounding" in discourse analysis refers to the difference between "core elements that advance ...
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