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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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Benjamin, Rebekah George – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Largely due to technological advances, methods for analyzing readability have increased significantly in recent years. While past researchers designed hundreds of formulas to estimate the difficulty of texts for readers, controversy has surrounded their use for decades, with criticism stemming largely from their application in creating new texts…
Descriptors: Readability, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Harris, R. Allen – Rhetoric Review, 1988
Discusses Mikhail Bakhtin's vision of the continuous affluence of language and claims it celebrates the polymeric nature of discourse as opposed to the traditional triangular paradigm which proves hopelessly inadequate.
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Language Usage
Neverow-Turk, Vara S.; Turk, David F. – 1986
Developed as a model for teachers faced with the task of assigning research papers to students who are still apprentice writers, this two-part paper explores the possibilities of written response that reside both in the dialogic interplay of ideas in utopian texts and in the criticism of utopian texts. The first part examines some ideas contained…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing, Literary Criticism