adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andfairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of passages 1(an american textbook) and first certificate (a british textbook) to find out whether...

this study aims at investigating the linguistic representation of male and female social actors in the four corners 4 textbook, drawing on cda. more specifically, van leeuwen’s (1996) framework, which highlights the connection of linguistic and social practices, is used as the analytical framework to examine gendered social actors in this english language teaching (elt) textbook. to this end, c...

The Japanese discourse particles (sentencefinal particles) ne and yone both have the functions that can be roughly characterized as the ⟨shared information⟩ use and the ⟨call for confirmation⟩ use. In the literature, an adequate descriptive analysis has not been obtained as to how the choice between the two particles is made. This paper aims to clarify discourse conditions under which ne and yo...

INSTANTIATION is a fairly common discourse relation and past work has suggested that it plays special roles in local coherence, in sentiment expression and in content selection in summarization. In this paper we provide the first systematic corpus analysis of the relation and show that relation-specific features can improve considerably the detection of the relation. We show that sentences invo...

Current approaches to sentiment analysis assume that the sole discourse function of sentiment-bearing texts is expressivity. However, the persuasive discourse function also utilises expressive language. In this work, we present the results of training supervised classifiers on a new corpus of clinical texts that contain documents with an expressive discourse function, and we test the learned mo...

Drawing on Alvesson and Karreman’s (2000) analysis of the methodological problems facing organizational discourse analysis, this commentary examines the four primary essays in this special issue in terms of their ability to deal adequately with micro-discourse, mesodiscourse, grand discourse, and mega-discourse.

We propose d-stag, a new formalism for the automatic analysis of discourse. The analyses computed by d-stag are hierarchical discourse structures annotated with discourse relations, which are compatible with discourse structures computed in sdrt. A discursive stag grammar pairs up trees anchored by discourse connectives with trees anchored by (functors associated with) discourse relations.

media can be a good representation of dominant ideologies in society. the analysis of such discourse can shed light on the mental and social structures of people in society. adopting van dijk’s (1995) layout of discourse ideology and his (2000) practical and general outline of ideological analysis, this study analyzes the iranian movie a separation, the winner of the 84th annual academy award f...

This paper takes a critical look at the news reports of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Mina stampede. Previous studies have indicated that media discourse contributes to public opinion and ideology. Little, however, has been mentioned on how variation in media discourse affects the process. This study analyzed 24 news reports from the two countries from 24 to 31 September 2015...

the purpose of this paper is to study the social aspects of nativization of using the internet by describing the manner of interaction of the users with the internet and the manner of application of the qualitative research method. to do so, the writer has first studied the characteristics of the information society, methods of using information and communication technology and the conceptual f...