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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
Reem Adib Lulu – rEFLections, 2015
Cohesive markers link sentences together in text and make the whole text united and meaningful. While translating from the source language (SL) to the target language (TL), the translator may not translate all of the cohesive markers or may incorrectly translate them which affects the communicative meaning of the SL. Thus, many studies have…
Descriptors: Grammar, Connected Discourse, Arabic, English
Enyi, Amaechi Uneke; Chitulu, Mark Ononiwu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study, entitled, "Texture and textuality in Political Discourse: A Study of Cohesive Devices in President Goodluck Jonathan's Inaugural Address-May, 2011" was an analysis of the lexical cohesive devices employed by Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan in crafting his May, 2011's Presidential Inaugural Address (PIA). Guided by the…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Presidents, Discourse Analysis, Speeches
Correa, Doris; Domínguez, Camilo – HOW, 2014
Traditionally, at universities, English as a foreign language instructors have used a series of approaches to teach students how to write academic texts in English from both teacher preparation and regular programs. In spite of this, students continue to have problems writing the academic texts required of them in the different courses. Concerned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Spenader, Jennifer; Smits, Erik-Jan; Hendriks, Petra – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Many comprehension studies have shown that children as late as age 6 ; 6 misinterpret object pronouns as co-referring with the referential subject about half the time. A recent review of earlier experiments testing children's interpretation of object pronouns in sentences with quantified subjects (Elbourne, 2005) also suggests that there is a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Value Judgment, Indo European Languages
Discriminant Analysis of Pschological Judgments of Literal and Figurative Meaningfulness and Anomaly

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
Roulet, Eddy – 1982
Early speech-act theorists studied isolated speech acts, often in terms of single sentences invented by the investigator, an approach that had obvious limitations. It is now known that speech acts ought to be investigated by looking at utterances in their full interactional context. A hierarchical model of the structure of conversation that is…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Interaction
Even-Zohar, Itamar – 1982
The idea that "natural speech" as well as written discourse can be organized is now commonly accepted. There is also evidence that natural speech contains more coherence indicators than written texts do. This article proposes that one type of organizer, pragmatic connectives such as "therefore, then, thus, while, however, but"…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
Kaplan, Robert B. – 1978
In a written discourse consisting of a string of "psychological paragraphs," there is in each such psychological paraqraph a "head" structure containing the topic which derives from the deep structure of the discourse. That "head" assertion differs from all other assertions in the psychological paragraph in that it carries new information. The…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)