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Mazzie, Claudia A. – Discourse Processes, 1987
Indicates that the main determinant of implicitness, when defined in terms of "inferrable" vs. "evoked" information, was the variable of content, not that of modality: Abstract texts contained more inferrable information than did narrative texts, regardless of modality. (NKA)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Oral Language

De Temple, Jeanne M.; And Others – Discourse Processes, 1991
Investigates the extent of variation in children's language performance in a picture description task arising from mode (oral or written) versus degree of demand for decontextualization. Finds that children manipulated the wide range of the oral form of the contextualized/decontextualized continuum more skillfully than the written form. Finds no…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Family Environment, Language Research

Gee, Julie; Savasir, Iskender – Discourse Processes, 1985
Describes a study of the use of the terms "will" and "gonna" in the speech of two three-year-old girls. The results suggest that one of the functions of "will" and "gonna" is to impart different causal relations to the two practices of "undertaking" and "planning." (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Usage

Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Discourse Processes, 1985
Describes discourse development in the sign language of 24 profoundly deaf children. Findings indicate children were acquiring appropriate discourse strategies comparable to those used by hearing children in spoken conversations and adult deaf signers. (DF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education

Biber, Douglas; Finegan, Edward – Discourse Processes, 1988
Identifies various speech styles of English as marked by stance adverbials. Indicates that the discourse functions of stance adverbials differ considerably from the functions suggested by their literal meanings. (JK)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Cluster Analysis, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis

Fine, Jonathan – Discourse Processes, 1985
Examines analysis of cohesion as an index of both social and cognitive factors. Oral language of reading disabled was studied and found to indicate some difficulties of the subjects when dealing with information under special social and cognitive conditions. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Language Research

Ehrich, Veronika; Kosler, Charlotte – Discourse Processes, 1983
Presents an experimental approach to the linguistic analysis of discourse organization. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Dutch, Language Research

Liebling, Cheryl Rappaport – Discourse Processes, 1988
Examines elementary school-aged children's knowledge of directives. Presents findings of cross-sectional research which contrasted first-, third-, and fifth-grade students' comprehension, production of, and reasoning about directives varying in degree of explicitness. Indicates that children's knowledge of directives continues to develop during…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Research, Cross Sectional Studies, Elementary Education

Hidi, Suzanne E.; Hilyard, Angela – Discourse Processes, 1983
Concludes that children's discourse production is organized according to a schema that is discourse specific but modality general. (FL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis