NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Date
In 20250
Since 20240
Since 2021 (last 5 years)0
Since 2016 (last 10 years)1
Since 2006 (last 20 years)1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 57 results Save | Export
Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study examines the extent to which instructions to self-explain vs. "other"-explain a text lead readers to produce different forms of explanations. Natural language processing was used to examine the content and characteristics of the explanations produced as a function of instruction condition. Undergraduate students (n = 146)…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Science Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods
Turner, Nigel E.; Katz, Albert N. – 1990
Conventionality can be defined as discourse used in its dominant or most familiar sense. In nonliteral language, the intended message is different from the overt message. It has been demonstrated that nonliteral language can be comprehended as rapidly as literal language if both are placed in linguistic context. A study examined whether this held…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Processing
Mayher, John S. – 1981
An explanatory linguistic theory attempts to capture and explain the universal nature of human language, to choose among possible grammars of each human language, and to account for the linguistic constraints involved in language acquisition. Discourse theory, like linguistic theory, must be mentalistic in that it seeks to account for mental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition
Blumberg, Carol Joyce; And Others – 1983
The effects of various discourse variables on the psycholinguistic processing of sentences within paragraphs by 36 competent adult readers were investigated. Eye movement measures were used as the dependent variables reflecting psycholinguistic processing. When all of the constraints within which the study had to be performed were examined, it…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Eye Movements, Language Processing
Birch, David – 1990
Critical linguistics, an area of study within linguistics that has developed since the 1970s, is discussed. Critical linguistics argues that different groups, societies, and ideologies have different understandings of reality because they classify and categorize with and through language in different ways. Therefore, meaning is not something…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Language Role
PDF pending restoration PDF pending restoration
Viaggio, Sergio – 1991
Translators must understand what they translate, but oral language is generally more redundant than written language and the translator need not repeat everything he hears. One method of teaching this skill is to have students sight translate a text in its entirety and then abridge it to its minimum informative content. Abstracting and compressing…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Discourse Analysis, Interpreters, Interpretive Skills
Prideaux, Gary D. – 1990
A study investigated the role of certain discourse and language processing factors in the production of narratives under controlled conditions. Subjects watched a short segment from a movie and then narrated the events to a researcher. The narrations were taped, transcribed, and analyzed in terms of such factors as: (1) the number and types of…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Kucer, Stephen B. – 1981
Drawing upon reading and text comprehension theories and the sociolinguistic studies of M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan, this paper builds theoretical links between the reading and writing processes. The major portion of the paper discusses the five language concepts that undergird both processes: (1) text processing in both reading and writing…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Learning Theories
Wootten, Janet; And Others – 1979
The use of "wh" forms in questions asked by four children was recorded from age 22 to 36 months, and analyzed. In the emergence of "wh" forms, the children first asked identifying questions with "what" and "who," followed in order by (1) "wh" pronominal questions which ask for major sentence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Discourse Analysis, Infants
Housel, Thomas J.; Acker, Stephen R. – 1979
Defining schemas as specific representations of world knowledge, this paper contends that schema theory offers a promising approach toward the development of a comprehensive theory of communication. The paper traces the development of schema theory, reviews current literature on the subject, and points out its potential for use in future…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Stacks, Don W. – 1989
Based on a prior model on modularity of the brain, a new modular model of intrapersonal communication was developed which focuses on brain processing, encompassing both the structures and the functions of those structures in the creation of messages. The modular mind is a bio-social model of communication which presupposes a relationship between…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Structures, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Lang, Margaret F. – 1991
Students arriving in the language department at Heriot-Watt University (Scotland) who study two languages arrive deficient in both languages and often in English as well. Generally, students have little knowledge of current and international affairs or the history and culture of the countries whose languages they are learning. However, they…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bassano, Dominique; And Others – 1988
A study investigated how children report epistemic modality and focused on two main questions: (1) How do children reproduce modal devices that are present in the original (to-be-reported) discourse? and (2) How do children use different linguistic means of quotation--direct, indirect, or other--in this situation? Sixty monolingual French-speaking…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology
French, Lucia – 1981
The ways in which preschoolers use the word "but" were studied. It was found that the eight preschoolers, who ranged in age from 3;9 to 5;5, were able to use "but" to express a number of different types of adversative relationships. "But" introduced clauses containing information that: (1) contrasted with shared knowledge about the usual state of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
McDaniel, Mark A.; Kerwin, Mary Louise E. – Discourse Processes, 1987
Examines (in two experiments) the effects of schematic and proposition-specific processing on long term story memory. Determines that recall of idea units was an additive function of the idea's importance. Finds that both proposition-specific and schema-related processing are important for long-term retention of narrative prose. (SKC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4