scholarly journals Exploring the role of clause subordination in discourse structure: The case of Frenchavant que

2008 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Laurence Delort
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure

Avatar and Dialog Turn-Yielding Phenomena

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ladislav Kunc ◽  
Zdenek Míkovec ◽  
Pavel Slavík
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Correct Judgment ◽  
Spoken Dialog Systems ◽  
Dialog Systems ◽  
Vocal Cues ◽  
Synthesized Speech ◽  
Turn Taking

Turn-taking and turn-yielding phenomena in dialogs receive increasing attention nowadays. A growing number of spoken dialog systems inspire application designers to humanize people’s interaction experience with computers. The knowledge of psychology in discourse structure could be helpful in this effort. In this paper the authors explore effectiveness of selected visual and vocal turn-yielding cues in dialog systems using synthesized speech and an avatar. The aim of this work is to detect the role of visual and vocal cues on dialog turn-change judgment using a conversational agent. The authors compare and study the cues in two experiments. Findings of those experiments suggest that the selected visual turn-yielding cues are more effective than the vocal cues in increasing correct judgment of dialog turn-change. Vocal cues in the experiment show quite poor results and the conclusion discusses possible explanations of that.

scholarly journals The role of causal discourse structure in narrative writing

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 711-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Brian Linzie ◽  
Charles Fletcher ◽  
Chad J. Marsolek
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Narrative Writing

The social consequences of language ideologies in courtroom cross-examination

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Eades
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Closing Arguments ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Investigative Interview ◽  
The Social

AbstractInvestigations of inequality within the courtroom have mostly examined ways in which discourse structure and rules of use constrain witnesses. This article goes beyond interactional practices to deal with four central language ideologies, which both facilitate these practices and impact on the interpretation and understanding of what people say in evidence. The article further shows that language ideologies can have much wider consequences beyond the courtroom. Focusing on language ideologies involved in storytelling and retelling in cross-examination, and using an Australian example, the article traces the recontextualization of part of a witness's story from an initial investigative interview to cross-examination, then to its evaluation in closing arguments and the judicial decision, as well as its (mis)representation in the print media. The analysis reveals the role of these language ideologies in the perpetuation of neocolonial control over Australian Aboriginal people. (Language ideologies, courtroom talk, cross-examination, decontextualization, recontextualization, neocolonial control, Australia)*

Discourse Structure and the Negotiation of Comprehensible Input

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ehrlich ◽  
Peter Avery ◽  
Carlos Yorio
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Accurate Predictor ◽  
Drawing Task ◽  
Comprehensible Input

This article examines the role of negotiations of meaning in providing comprehensible input for NNS learners. We report on an experiment conducted with NS–NNS and NS–NS pairs involving a picture-drawing task, where one member of each pair instructed the other in the drawing of simple objects. The results of the experiment suggest that the success or failure of meaning negotiations in providing comprehensible input depends on the point in the discourse at which they occur. We therefore question a prevailing assumption in the second language acquisition literature that the mere quantity of meaning negotiations within a discourse is an accurate predictor of the quantity of comprehensible input that results. We propose that meaning negotiations should be analyzed within a discourse framework to explain their role in creating comprehensible input.

Theme, Rheme, and Word Order

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Adjémian
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Formal Grammar ◽  
Prague School ◽  
The 19Th Century

Summary Henri Weil’s thesis, published in Paris during the first half of the 19th century, is the first cogent theory of word order in European linguistics. Weil’s work is the first to argue that discourse structure has an effect on the internal structure of the sentence. His ideas are the direct ancestors of the concepts ‘psychological subject’ and ‘psychological predicate’ which so highly influenced stylistic work into the 20th century. Weil’s insights had very little direct influence on French linguistics but are the source of V. Mathesius’ ‘theme’ end ‘rheme’ and the subsequent Prague School theory of word order. This paper presents an overview of Weil’s thesis, followed by a critical evaluation, in the light of Weil’s work, of a sample of later studies on French word order. The fundamental concepts of Weil’s theory are traced into 20th-century linguistics, with particular attention to their evolution in Prague School theory. Finally, a brief survey of work in generative grammar on discourse and the sentence is presented. In conclusion it is claimed that the rediscovery in formal grammar of the role of discourse structure in shaping the internal structure of the sentence is a comtemporary confirmation of Weil’s thesis.

scholarly journals Children as Mathematicians: The Interplay between Discourse Structure, Mathematicising, and the Participatory Approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Sinikka Kaartinen ◽  
Timo Latomaa
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Classroom Community ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Sociocultural Perspective ◽  
Number Words ◽  
The Social ◽  
Verbal Participation ◽  
Core Elements

This paper investigates the discourse structure, mathematicising and the participatory approach in an early education classroom community whose pedagogy in the learning of mathematics draws on the sociocultural perspective. The social interactions of the classroom community, as well as the role of pre-symbolic sign vehicles as semiotic tools in supporting interaction building, mathematicising, and strategy selection, were subjected to a qualitative micro-level analysis based on applied discourse and semiotic procedures. The results of the study suggest that the young children's mathematical ability develops during the two-year observation period from nonverbal participation to verbal participation through the following core elements: attention to numeracy, the learning of number words, object counting and mathematical story telling. The iconic and indexical pre-symbolic sign vehicles and semiotic chaining applied in the learning situations provide the learning community with the means to structure their experiences of their everyday practise and to relate them to the culture of mathematicising.

scholarly journals Проблемы изучения севернорусского слова дак: достижения и недостаткищ(Advantages and Shortcomings of Different Perspectives in Describing Northern Russian dak)

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Margje Post
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Discourse Structure ◽  
Speech Research ◽  
The Way

The word dak is one of several highly frequent particles, used in most Northern Russian and some Siberian dialects. It can occur sentence ini- tially, sentence internally and sentence finally to connect two parts of the discourse, such as words, sentences, and presuppositions.This article describes the advantages and shortcomings of six dif- ferent perspectives which have been used to describe this unspecified, multifunctional word: descriptions in traditional grammatical terms, in syntactic terminology used for spontaneus speech, research on its role in information structure, its use in discourse, the role of prosody, and finally comparisons with parallel words in neighbouring and other languages. I conclude that a combination of approaches is required for a better understanding of the way dak functions. Studies in prosody combined with research on dak's role in information structure appear to be most fruitful, and modern theories of discourse structure, which are almost completely ignored at present, could be helpful. Much research remains to be done, especially to clarify the restrictions on the use of the word dak and the way it functions in less obvious contexts.

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