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Hawley, Lance R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Within the book of Job, the interlocutors (Job, the friends, and Yahweh) seem to largely ignore one another's arguments within their dialogical discourse. This observation leads some to propose that the dialogue lacks conceptual coherence. I argue that the interlocutors tangentially attend to previously stated points-of-view and attempt to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Biblical Literature, Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse
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Chien, Chi-ying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The study of teaching translation has always been influenced by the theory of foreign language teaching, regardless of the theoretical or practical approaches the researchers used. In the classroom, students are frequently bored with translating grammar because they are seldom taught how grammar works. In view of this teaching gap, this study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Malgady, Robert – Journal of Psychology, 1977
Questions the assumption that literal, figurative, and anomalous sentences should be regarded as qualitatively different kinds of speech rather than as portions of a continuum of language use. (RL)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Discriminant Analysis, Figurative Language