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Orita, Naho; Vornov, Eliana; Feldman, Naomi H. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost. Simulations suggest that both the topicality of the referent…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Preferences, Form Classes (Languages)
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Liu, Mingya; Rotter, Stephanie; Giannakidou, Anastasia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
The concept of bias is familiar to linguists primarily from the literature on questions. Following the work of Giannakidou and Mari (Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought: Modality, Mood, and Propositional Attitudes, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2021), we assume "nonveridical equilibrium" (implying that p and ¬p as equal…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, German, Verbs
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Alenizi, Aied – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This qualitative study aims at exploring the internal structure of personal experience oral narrative in Arabic in terms of Woodbury (1987) rhetorical components and Labov (1972) approach of narrative structure, who claimed its presence in all well-formed narratives. Recordings of orally told narratives by five Saudi informants were elicited in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Semitic Languages, Phrase Structure, Syntax
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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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Fitri, Nidya; Artawa, Ketut; Satywati, Made Sri; Sawirman – English Language Teaching, 2019
The usage of hedges in trial discourse context is interested to be explored. This paper presents a description of phenomena related to the use of hedges by witnesses and experts in Indonesian court trial. It focuses on the usage of hedges in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and utterances in court trial context. Conversation among participants…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Court Litigation, Indonesian, Discourse Analysis
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Alsager, Haroon N.; Afzal, Naeem; Aldawood, Arwa A. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Discourse markers, as words or phrases, play a significant role in promoting coherent segments of discourse. This paper investigates the use of discourse markers (DMs) in newspaper articles. By applying Fraser's framework, this study aims at investigating the functions and positions of DM "but" (English) and its equivalent…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Newspapers, English, Contrastive Linguistics
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Kim, Stephanie Hyeri – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
This article reports on the conversation-analytic investigation of "ani" "no"-prefaced responses to polar questions in Korean conversation, when "ani" is not used as a negative response particle to negate or disconfirm the truth conditional proposition of the question. Understanding polar questions as advancing the…
Descriptors: Korean, Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Questioning Techniques
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Cui, Huanle; Liu, Lingling; Li, Juanjuan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
It is widely believed that tourist trade has been the fastest developing trade in the world. In China, with the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standard, travelling has been an indispensable part of living. Therefore, tourism text becomes one of the most effective publicity tool to attractive tourists. A tour guide…
Descriptors: Grammar, Tourism, Economic Development, Living Standards
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Genc, Zubeyde Sinem; Armagan, Kiymet Selin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of the study is to investigate gender-bound language use in Turkish and English languages and to identify the differences and similarities across cultures and genders in the plays with family and social themes. Four English and five Turkish plays were chosen randomly for comparison. The number of words in the plays were taken into…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Statistical Analysis, Turkish, Drama
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Leal, Tania; Destruel, Emilie; Hoot, Bradley – Second Language Research, 2019
This paper examines the strategies used by speakers of Spanish as a second language (L2) for marking Information Focus, a phenomenon found at the syntax-discourse interface. Sorace and colleagues have proposed the Interface Hypothesis, according to which the syntax-discourse interface poses unique challenges for bilinguals (Sorace, 2011). With…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Discourse Analysis
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Laskurain-Ibarluzea, Patxi – Hispania, 2015
This paper studies mood distribution in the complement of Spanish assertive matrices when the matrix subject is modified by the quantifier "poco/a/s". The focus of this study is solely complement clauses, and adjectival and adverbial clauses are not considered. Following Mejías-Bikandi's (1994, 1998) account that the distribution of mood…
Descriptors: Spanish, Correlation, Morphemes, Verbs
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Peace, Meghann M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
Other-orientation (Linell, 2009) is an essential element of language in that all speakers dialogue with an "other" when communicating. They take into consideration the other's assumed perspective, knowledge, and needs, and manipulate their language in response to these assumptions. This study investigated the extent to which…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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Smeets, Liz – Second Language Research, 2019
This article investigates near-native grammars at the syntax--discourse interface by examining the second language (L2) acquisition of two different domains of object movement in Dutch, which exhibit syntax-discourse or syntax-semantics level properties. English and German near-native speakers of Dutch, where German but not English allows the same…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Semantics
Uno, Mariko – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The present dissertation extracted 17,291 questions from Aki, Ryo, and Tai and their mother's spontaneously produced speech data available in the CHILDES database (MacWhinney, 2000; Oshima-Takane & MacWhinney, 1998). The children's age ranged from 1;3 to 3;0. Their questions were coded for (1) yes/no questions that include a sentence-final…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship
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Madhkhan, Mozhgan; Mousavi, Mojtaba – English Language Teaching, 2017
Anaphoric expressions are among the most frequent language forms which depend on context for their resolution. Among efforts made in theorizing referential choice, distance approaches take into account how accessibility/continuity is reflected by choice of referring expressions. The thing is that individual's choices are made under major and minor…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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