This discourse analysis aimed to investigate how language is used in news broadcast through the use of Fairclough’s three dimensional model. Data revealed on its textual level that broadcast, like any form discourse, also positive adjectives, negative adjectives and disjunctive syntax. Various strategies were employed by producers order realize communicative end. News media carries an important...

We present a corpus of European Portuguese spoken by teenagers and adults in school context, CPE-FACES, with an overview of the differential characteristics of high school oral presentations and the challenges this data poses to automatic speech processing. The CPE-FACES corpus has been created with two main goals: to provide a resource for the study of prosodic patterns in both spontaneous and...

OBJECTIVE To measure the value the patients place on different aspects of person-centred care. DESIGN We systematically identified four attributes of person-centred care. We then measured their value to 923 people with either chronic pain or chronic lung disease over three discrete choice experiments (DCEs) about services to support self-management. We calculated the value of each attribute f...

PURPOSE To verify whether the use of a shorter filmed sample influences the results of pragmatic assessment in children with language impairment. METHODS Data was obtained from videotaped samples and protocols for pragmatic analysis of 30 children between 3 and 6 years old. Each 15-minute sample (total moment) was analyzed and divided into three moments with five minutes each (initial, medial...

We investigated the early socio-communicative development of individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) by undertaking a retrospective analysis of family videos. Videos were analyzed to identify existing communicative forms and functions. Analyses were undertaken on seven children who were later diagnosed with FXS. The children were filmed when they were 9-12 months old and before being diagnose...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of communicative intention on action. In Experiment 1 participants were requested to reach towards an object, grasp it, and either simply lift it (individual condition) or lift it with the intent to communicate a meaning to a partner (communicative condition). Movement kinematics were recorded using a three-dimensional motion analysis ...

Speech phenomena have long been the object of consideration in history literary language. They were interpreted as vernacular speech, since subject this branch linguistics is study ways formation language against background interaction with spoken language, which has areal and social differentiation. The need to use terms element, style disappeared due two factors: 1) researchers linked these c...