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Chi Zhang; Sarah Bernolet; Robert J. Hartsuiker – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
We studied the role of discourse coherence relations on structure formulation in sentence production by examining whether a connective, an essential signal of coherence relations, modulates the tendency for speakers to reuse sentence structures (i.e., structural priming). We further examined three possible modulating factors: the type of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric, Sentence Structure, Priming
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Malika Beisenova; Gulzira Kenzhetaeva; Gulshat Beysembaeva; Gulzhan Altynbekova; Fatima Yerekhanova; Assel Akhmetbekova; Aitmukhamet Trushev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Anglicisms play a pivotal role in shaping media discourse in Kazakhstan, potentially influencing both the style and content of media texts. The communicative and pragmatic features of anglicisms in Kazakhstani news feeds, in addition, are deeply impacted by globalization. This research aims to analyze how anglicisms influence the perception and…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Mass Media, Language Styles
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Liu, Yang; Jin, Wanxin – International Education Studies, 2020
As the disseminator of information, news media play a vital role in the public speech community. Especially the mainstream English media in China, which not only carefully design the topic, content, and framework of news to broadcast information but also construct cultural identity and build China's image. Exemplified by a piece of news from…
Descriptors: News Media, Information Dissemination, English, Self Concept
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Braasch, Jason L. G.; Kessler, Erica D. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Comprehension substantially benefits from attending to, thinking about, and mentally representing the sources of any presented information. Such processes require mental effort and unfortunately people do not always engage in such activities. The current article presents a nascent, evolving model of discourse comprehension that formalizes…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Prediction
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Yang, Hongyan – English Language Teaching, 2015
Discourse coherence is a common phenomenon in linguistic studies, and plays an important role in discourse analysis. As a common and extremely important type of language phenomena, discourse coherence has drawn more and more scholars' attention, but they emphasis on partial discourse coherence, paying a little attention to holistic coherence. The…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse, Guidelines, Stereotypes
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Iza Erviti, Aneider – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
This paper examines the essential features of a group of constructions that belong to the family of complementary alternation discourse constructions in English. In this group of constructions, X and Y are two situations such that Y is less likely (or more likely) to happen than X. Each member of this group (X Let Alone Y, X Much Less Y, X Never…
Descriptors: English, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure
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Koivisto, Aino – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
This article discusses the use of the Finnish change-of-state token "aa" that has previously not been identified. The central claim is that even though "aa" indicates a cognitive shift experienced by the speaker, it does not function as a receipt of new information. Instead, the token "aa" indicates that the speaker…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Finno Ugric Languages, Epistemology, Oral Language
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Nordberg, Ann; Dahlgren Sandberg, Annika; Miniscalco, Carmela – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Research on retelling ability and cognition is limited in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and speech impairment. Aims: To explore the impact of expressive and receptive language, narrative discourse dimensions (Narrative Assessment Profile measures), auditory and visual memory, theory of mind (ToM) and non-verbal cognition on the…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Story Telling, Language Skills, Speech Impairments
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Benjamin, Rebekah George – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to estimate the difficulty of texts for readers, controversy has surrounded their use for decades, with criticism stemming largely from their application in creating new texts…
Descriptors: Readability, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Arnold, Jennifer E.; Bennetto, Loisa; Diehl, Joshua J. – Cognition, 2009
We examine the referential choices (pronouns/zeros vs. names/descriptions) made during a narrative by high-functioning children and adolescents with autism and a well-matched typically developing control group. The process of choosing appropriate referring expressions has been proposed to depend on two areas of cognitive functioning: (a) judging…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Autism, Memory, Interpersonal Communication
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Frank, Stefan L.; Koppen, Mathieu; Noordman, Leo G. M.; Vonk, Wietske – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Because higher level cognitive processes generally involve the use of world knowledge, computational models of these processes require the implementation of a knowledge base. This article identifies and discusses 4 strategies for dealing with world knowledge in computational models: disregarding world knowledge, "ad hoc" selection, extraction from…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Mathematical Models, Computational Linguistics
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Tognini, Rita; Philp, Jenefer; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on a study of peer interaction in ten foreign language (FL) classes, six secondary and four primary, over a period of four months. The focus of this paper is the nature of peer interaction, including the purposes of second language use, and language choice. The data, comprising observation, audio and video recordings of five…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Arnold, Jennifer E.; Brown-Schmidt, Sarah; Trueswell, John – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2007
Two experiments were conducted to examine the on-line processing mechanisms used by young children to comprehend pronouns. The work focuses on their use of two highly relevant sources of information: (1) the gender and number features carried by English pronouns, and (2) the differing accessibility of discourse entities, as influenced by…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Children, Sex
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
Bulcock, Jeffrey W.; Beebe, Mona J. – 1984
Distinguishing between interpretive and formal models of discourse processing and between qualitative and quantitative research, this paper argues that formal models are the analogues of interpretive models, and that the two are complementary. It observes that interpretive models of reading are being increasingly derived from qualitative research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Models
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