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Andersson, Marta; Sundberg, Rolf – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Through a structured examination of four English causal discourse connectives, our article tackles a gap in the existing research, which focuses mainly on written language production, and entirely lacks attests on English spoken discourse. Given the alleged general nature of English connectives commonly emphasized in the literature, the underlying…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English, Speech Communication, Discourse Analysis
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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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Clifton, Charles; Frazier, Lyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Domain restriction is a pervasive if often neglected part of discourse comprehension. Speakers and authors implicitly limit the domain of discourse of quantifiers (e.g., "everyone") and noun phrases (e.g., "the girls"). Our previous research shows that an initial temporal or locative prepositional phrase (PP), which introduces…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Vogels, Jorrig; Lindgren, Josefin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
When telling a story, a speaker needs to refer to story characters using appropriate expressions, which requires a mental model of the discourse. We hypothesize that, compared to those of adults, children's discourse models are based more on factors that are less cognitively demanding, such as animacy, and as they grow older, discourse factors…
Descriptors: Swedish, Preschool Children, Discourse Analysis, Cues
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Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This article presents a self-paced reading study comparing the online processing of interclausal discourse relations in native speakers of English and German. The study aims to contribute to two overarching questions: First, it puts to the test the so-called causality-by-default hypothesis, which states that causality is a default assumption,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, German, Reading Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Huang, Yi Ting; Arnold, Jennifer E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Reference production is often studied through single dimensions of contrast (e.g., "tall glass" when there are one or two glasses of varying height). Yet real-world communication is rarely so simple, raising questions about the factors guiding more complex referents. The current study examines decisions to mention set relations (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Vignettes, Discourse Analysis, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Debreslioska, Sandra; Gullberg, Marianne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Speakers use speech and gestures to represent referents in discourse. Depending on referents' information status, in speech speakers will vary richness of expression (e.g., lexical noun phrase [NP]/pronoun), nominal definiteness (indefinite/definite), and grammatical role (subject/object). This study tested whether these three linguistic markers…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Crible, Ludivine; Pickering, Martin J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study aims to establish whether the processing of different connectives (e.g., "and," "but") and different coherence relations (addition, contrast) can be modulated by a structural feature of the connected segments--namely, parallelism. While "but" is mainly used to contrast two expressions, "and"…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs
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Brocher, Andreas; Chiriacescu, Sofiana Iulia; von Heusinger, Klaus – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
In discourse processing, speakers collaborate toward a shared mental model by establishing and recruiting prominence relations between different discourse referents. In this article we investigate to what extent the possibility to infer a referent's existence from preceding context (as indicated by the referent's information status as inferred or…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Laury, Ritva – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article concerns the use of independent "jos" "if"-clauses as directives (requests, proposals, and suggestions) in Finnish everyday conversation. It shows that clause types which are traditionally considered subordinate can be used without any main clauses and, thus, do not project further talk to follow in the same turn. Other participants…
Descriptors: Finno Ugric Languages, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis, Syntax
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Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article explores the viability of the analytic distinction between "turn-constructional unit (TCU) continuation" (i.e., continuing a turn beyond a point of possible completion with grammatically dependent material) and "new TCU" (i.e., continuing a turn with grammatically independent material) when hypotactic clause combinations are involved.…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Syntax
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Krekoski, Ross – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Recent studies illustrate cases of turn continuations that are not necessarily criterially dependent on clausal syntax (Couper-Kuhlen & Ono, 2007; Ford, Fox, & Thompson, 2002), advancing a more multidimensional construal of turn expansions, in general, which, as Auer (2007) put it, "is not a syntactic issue alone" (p. 651). This study further…
Descriptors: Japanese, Phrase Structure, Syntax, Pragmatics
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Ono, Tsuyoshi; Thompson, Sandra A.; Sasaki, Yumi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article focuses on the grammar of Japanese "kara" "because/so" and "kedo" "but", traditionally understood as conjunctive particles whose function is to mark a "subordinate" clause and connect it to a following "main" clause. This article shows that, in conversation, these forms are often used turn-finally without an apparent main clause and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Japanese, Persuasive Discourse, Grammar
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Zhang, Wei – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This article offers an interactional account of turn continuations in Chinese conversation, which are characterized as (a) being effected by latching/rush-through, (b) being clauses with predicates, either main or adverbial, and (c) taking a retrospective orientation in the kind of interactional work they do. Close examination reveals that while,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Mandarin Chinese, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure
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Kovaz, David; Kreuz, Roger J.; Riordan, Monica A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Sarcasm production and comprehension have been traditionally described in terms of pragmatic factors. Lexical cues have received less attention, but they may be important potential indicators. A major obstacle to examining such features is determining sarcastic intent. One solution is to analyze statements explicitly marked as being sarcastic.…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Electronic Publishing, Phrase Structure, Negative Attitudes
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