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Peer reviewedColston, Herbert L. – Language and Speech, 2000
Investigated the role that irony mapping, absurdity comparison, and argumentative convention play in interpreters' derivations of speaker's intentions in using rebuttal analogies. Three rebuttal types were rated on argumentativeness and social attack in verbal conflict and nonverbal conflict scenarios. Results found that analogies with ironic…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Direct linkFon, Janice; Johnson, Keith – Language and Speech, 2004
This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Intervals, Syllables, Foreign Countries
