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Gronostay, Dorothee – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Being challenged by opposing views in a controversial discussion can stimulate the production of more elaborate and sophisticated argumentations. According to the model of argument reappraisal (Leitão, 2000), such processes require transactivity, meaning that students do not only give reasons to support their own position (e.g., pro/contra…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Communication, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Debate
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Debreslioska, Sandra; Özyürek, Asli; Gullberg, Marianne; Perniss, Pamela – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The tracking of entities in discourse is known to be a bimodal phenomenon. Speakers achieve cohesion in speech by alternating between full lexical forms, pronouns, and zero anaphora as they track referents. They also track referents in co-speech gestures. In this study, we explored how viewpoint is deployed in reference tracking, focusing on…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Connected Discourse, Language Usage