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Sigrell, Anders – Education Inquiry, 2012
Mother-tongue teachers teach argumentation analysis. To this end, among other things, they use a stylistic meta-language, i.e. the tropes and figures of style, to analyse arguments as well as more aesthetic communication. The best-known trope is the metaphor. In this article it is argued that a more pragmatic view on the related figure metonymy…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Metalinguistics, Native Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 2002
This article advances the bio-kinetic hypothesis that the complexity and nonlinear dynamics of language can be approached on the basis of the Agent-action-Objective (AaO) paradigm. It is shown that the derived AaO units rotate and that AaO-governed rotations include functions that can be imagined in real time, provided that a dot marking the state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Language Patterns, Text Structure
Nordenstam, Kerstin – 1990
A study investigated the use of tag questions in the private conversations of Swedish men and women. Conversations took place in single-gender dyads (six with two men and six with two women) and six mixed-gender dyads. Informants were aged approximately 25 or approximately 50, of different social classes, chosen by random selection, and asked to…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication