Revising some fundamental assumptions in model theory, Barwise/Perry [1] have arrived at a new approach to formal semantics, based on the concept of situation. Within their relational model of semantics, meaning appears to be the derivative of information processing which (natural/artificial) systems — due to their own structuredness — perform by recognizing similarities or invariants between s...

Recent studies on the analysis of intonational function examine a r a n ~ of materials from cue phrases in monologue (Litman and Hirschberg, 1990) and dialogue (Hirschberg and Litman, 1987; Hockey, 1991) to longer utterances in both monologue and dialogue (McLemore, 1991). Results match specific intonational tunes to certain discourse functions which are more or less well defined. Although thes...

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

This thesis proposes a novel solution to the problem of determining the domain of an adverbial quantifier. Adverbial quantification crucially differs from nominal quantification in that, in general, no indication of the domain of quantification is syntactically given in an adverbially quantified sentence. As a result, two questions about adverbial quantifier domains naturally arise. First, what...

In the normal aging processes, complaints of memory loss and auditory comprehension are not uncommon, principally in complex and cognitively demanding situations. Objective The objective of this study was to investigate skills of discourse comprehension and retention in a natural situation, by healthy aged in relation to variables such as age, schooling and cognitive screening measurement. ...

The paper considers the axiological problems of postmodern translator’s discourse in aspect ecology language. object study is contemporary discourse, its subject changes linguistic scale this paradigm, reflected language (the “text lifting” strategy). material under consideration translations English literary texts into Russian. aims at revealing translation constants and their status including...

This study was an attempt to shed light on the use of requestive speech act by Iranian nonnative speakers (NNSs) of English and Canadian native speakers (NSs) of English to find out the (possible) similarities and/or differences between the request realizations, and to investigate the influence of the situational variables of power, distance, context familiarity, and L1’s (possible) influence. ...

The pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of language use vary across different situations, languages, and cultures. The separation of these two facets of language use can help to map out the socio-cultural norms and conventions as well as the linguistic forms and strategies that underlie the pragmatic performance of different language speakers in a variety of target language use situatio...