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Göbel, Alexander; Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Recent studies of appositives have turned up differences between sentence-medial appositives and sentence-final appositives, for instance, in their availability for discourse continuations. Three experiments investigated whether medial appositives are more difficult to comprehend than final appositives and if so why. Experiment 1 tested…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Phrase Structure, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis
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Salehi Kahrizsangi, Farzaneh; Barwell, Richard – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Metaphors are recognized as bridging scientists' challenges in communication with the public. In mathematics, however, which often involves abstract concepts and relations, less attention has been paid to the role of metaphors in public communication. In this article we examine the metaphors appearing in the discourse of 10 mathematicians in five…
Descriptors: Radio, Figurative Language, Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
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Fox Tree, Jean E.; D'Arcey, J. Trevor; Hammond, Alicia A.; Larson, Alina S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
We tested sarcasm production and identification across original communicators in a spontaneously produced conversational setting, including testing the role of synchronous movement on sarcasm production and identification. Before communicating, stranger dyads participated in either a synchronous or nonsynchronous movement task. They then completed…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Usage, Task Analysis, Interpersonal Communication
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Boeynaems, Amber; Burgers, Christian; Konijn, Elly A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The rhetoric used by right-wing anti-immigration politicians is considered important to their political success. Such rhetoric commonly contains figurative frames with metaphor and/or hyperbole. In two experiments (n[subscript experiment1] = 411, n[subscript experiment2] = 407), we tested when and how such figurative frames add to the intense and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Immigration, Voting
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Tay, Dennis – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Metaphor theory bears many implications for counseling processes, but metaphor in extended counseling talk is seldom evaluated. This article reports an exploratory skin conductance and discourse analysis of metaphorical versus literal communication styles in facilitating affective engagement over time. After background interaction with the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Counselor Client Relationship, Emotional Response, Discourse Analysis
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Mauchand, Maël; Vergis, Nikos; Pell, Marc D. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In spoken discourse, understanding irony requires the apprehension of subtle cues, such as the speaker's tone of voice (prosody), which often reveal the speaker's affective stance toward the listener in the context of the utterance. To shed light on the interplay of linguistic content and prosody on impressions of spoken criticisms and compliments…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Cues
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Boylan, James; Katz, Albert N. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
In the context of texts that depicted either a minimally confrontational conversation (study 1) or a more confrontational argument (study 2) with a close friend, the use of ironic criticism was rated as being more humorous, polite, and positive, yet also as more sarcastic and mocking than direct criticism. Although our results were consistent with…
Descriptors: Criticism, Figurative Language, Persuasive Discourse, Humor
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Steen, Gerard – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
An evaluation of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) offered by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. in this issue suggests a number of important opportunities for future research that may be based on interesting research findings produced over the past 3 decades in response to CMT. This reply to Gibbs argues that the main question for discourse processing remains…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis, Classification
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Bryant, Gregory A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Prosodic features in spontaneous speech help disambiguate implied meaning not explicit in linguistic surface structure, but little research has examined how these signals manifest themselves in real conversations. Spontaneously produced verbal irony utterances generated between familiar speakers in conversational dyads were acoustically analyzed…
Descriptors: Surface Structure, Speech Communication, Suprasegmentals, Figurative Language
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Okamoto, Shinichiro – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Two questionnaire experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of 2 styles (hyperbole and orthographically deviant writing style) on the perception of hiniku, 'quasi-irony', and oseji, 'quasi-flattery', in the Japanese language. In each experiment, stories were constructed in which a speaker made a remark evaluating the addressee's…
Descriptors: Japanese, Questionnaires, Language Styles, Writing (Composition)