The view of language as action is wellentrenched in computational theories of discourse, however previous work has not paid particular attention to the fact that agents' resource bounds must a ect the way that dialogue proceeds just as it a ects agents' behavior in general. This paper presents results on the role of discourse strategies in improving performance on collaborative tasks when agent...

Williams syndrome (WS) is a unique genetic developmental disorder characterized by excessive social behaviour accompanied by exaggerated prosody. While past studies with off-line assessment of prosodic skills report significant delays in prosodic skills in individuals with WS as compared to typically developing controls, reports typically lack speech analysis. The current study, using a speech ...

This study traced historical footprints of national identity discourses production through high school history textbooks. The main question is, what did the New Order's politics look like to Indonesia? method used was qualitative research that focused on analyzing content examined nine textbooks from three curriculums. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is analyze results show Order discoursing ...

We build on the work by Peled and Bonotti to illuminate impact of linguistic relativity democratic debate. Bonotti’s focus is multilingual societies, their worry that ‘unconscious epistemic effects’ can undermine political reasoning between interlocutors who do not share same native tongue. Our article makes two contributions. First, we argue concerns about are just as relevant monolingual disc...

Focus group methods specialize in the analysis of interactive discourse, but are only rarely employed as a stand-alone method to study such phenomena, owing inherent limitations concerning comparability and generalizability findings. In this paper, we argue that focus groups undergo three kinds transformations, involving changes participants’ cognitive states, social ties, discursive behavior, ...

It is widely accepted that discourses are composed of segments and that the recognition of segment boundaries is essential to a determination of discourse meaning (Grosz and Sidner, 1986). Written language has orthographic cues such as section headings, paragraph boundaries, and punctuation which can assist in identifying discourse structure. In spoken language, into-national variation provides...

A mark up language for tagging discourse, and for converting discourse sequences into a written format, according to highly context sensitive procedures, will be illustrated as well as a system for document annotation. The context in which a given communicative intercourse has taken place needs to be made available to ensure consistent interpretation of both single sequences of discourse and gl...