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Wei, Yipu; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted M.; Mak, Willem M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Interpreting subjectivity in causal relations takes effort: Subjective, claim-argument relations are read slower than objective, cause-consequence relations. In an eye-tracking-while-reading experiment, we investigated whether connectives and stance markers can play a facilitative role. Sixty-five Chinese participants read sentences expressing a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Persuasive Discourse, Bias, Form Classes (Languages)
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Wolfe, Michael B.; Tanner, Shawna M.; Taylor, Andrew R. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examine students' processing and representation of arguments and counterarguments in one-sided scientific texts. In Experiment 1, students read texts about evolution and TV violence. Sentence reading times indicated that subjects slowed down reading to the extent that arguments were both more consistent, and inconsistent, with the text…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Language Processing, Scientific Concepts, Student Attitudes