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Barabadi, Elyas; Golparvar, Seyyed Ehsan; Arghavan, Amanollah – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study examined the forms and functions of reformulation markers (RMs) in the three disciplines of philosophy, economics, and biology to see whether there is any disciplinary variation regarding these linguistic devices and their functions in essays written by undergraduate students. To this purpose, two corpora of university students' essays…
Descriptors: Essays, Discourse Analysis, Philosophy, Economics Education
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Mak, Willem M.; Tribushinina, Elena; Andreiushina, Elizaveta – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study aims to establish whether connectives can create referential expectations in discourse, and, if so, what these expectations are based on: connective semantics or frequency distributions in language use. This was tested by comparing the processing of the connectives "and" and "but" in Dutch and Russian by means of an…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Russian, Indo European Languages
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Keevallik, Leelo – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Cataphoric pronouns have been characterized as being co-referential with a word that comes later. Considering that talk is produced in real time, with little benefit of knowing what is yet to come, participants understand cataphoric pro-forms to be projecting more talk. Projection is a crucial interactive resource, as it enables speakers to align…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Word Order