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Cuihua, Wu; Lingling, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This paper spotlights the twelve slogans of the Olympic Games in order to critically analyze the ideologies underlying the discourse. By taking the principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Halliday's (1994) systemic-functional grammar (SFG) as analytical tools, the paper endeavours to reveal the ideology that predominates in the ruling…
Descriptors: Ideology, Athletics, Thematic Approach, Discourse Analysis
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Bryant, Gregory A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Prosodic features in spontaneous speech help disambiguate implied meaning not explicit in linguistic surface structure, but little research has examined how these signals manifest themselves in real conversations. Spontaneously produced verbal irony utterances generated between familiar speakers in conversational dyads were acoustically analyzed…
Descriptors: Surface Structure, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Figurative Language