Descriptor
Discourse Analysis | 2 |
Language Research | 2 |
Language Usage | 2 |
Sociolinguistics | 2 |
Anthropological Linguistics | 1 |
Dialogs (Language) | 1 |
Foreign Countries | 1 |
Structural Analysis… | 1 |
Source
Discourse Processes | 2 |
Publication Type
Information Analyses | 2 |
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Papua New Guinea | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating

Schieffelin, Bambi B. – Discourse Processes, 1981
Discusses how children in one society on the Papuan Plateau, Papua, New Guinea, learn about making and responding to requests based on a strategy of appeal. (FL)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Research

Bennett, Adrian – Discourse Processes, 1981
Discusses the process of understanding of intent by which participants, through the comparative interpretation of a series of cues and symbols as they are revealed in speech, develop categories for a contextual model of communication. Argues that discourse is essentially dialogic and phenomenologically realizable. (FL)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Language Usage