ABSTRACT This article investigates the presence of heterodiscourse in narratives oral tradition. Therefore, theoretical foundation is based on Bakhtinian perspective, which understands discourse, literary narratives, as marked by heterodiscursivity, evidencing a diversity social voices that signal ways understanding and points view about world. The analysis corpus, composed two from tradition, ...

This paper reports on an aspect of the EC funded Argunaut project which researched and developed awareness tools for moderators of online dialogues. In this study we report on an investigation into the nature of creative thinking in online dialogues and whether or not this creative thinking can be coded for and recognized automatically such that moderators can be alerted when creative thinking ...

This study proposes a computational model of the discourse segments in lyrics to understand and to model the structure of lyrics. To test our hypothesis that discourse segmentations in lyrics strongly correlate with repeated patterns, we conduct the first large-scale corpus study on discourse segments in lyrics. Next, we propose the task to automatically identify segment boundaries in lyrics an...

The article examines the features of presence a person-oriented type discourse in online movie review written English. Personal itself covers almost all text types generated by Internet due to various verbal and non-verbal means converging addressee communicative message. variety linguistic characteristics disclosing inner world person, expressing interpersonal relations, lexical explicating ca...

Abstract This article offers discourse analysis of young transgender people's interaction, in which they describe being rendered powerless through misgendering or misrepresentation. It argues that the collective responses to these moments enable them challenge ideologies underpinning their marginalisation, and recontextualise language used by others bodies. Stance-taking, production affect, con...

In this article we will explore group conversations at lower-secondary school about literary texts perceived as subject specific problems. We focus on cases interpreted borderline concerning student engagement, i.e., where it is not unambiguously clear whether the students are on-task or off-task. These represent pedagogical, interpretative and methodological challenges in that obvious (to eith...

Few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. This study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. To this end, 60...

few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

I treat the dynamics of interorganizational collaboration from a dialogue perspective. This extends the ‘exploitative’ and ‘explorative’ approaches that currently define scholarship on interorganizational collaboration. A dialogue perspective is argued to be particularly useful in understanding interorganizational efforts to tackle systemic issues that are technically as well as behavio...