L1 English and L1 Taiwan Mandarin discourselength English speech data extracted from the TWNAESOP corpus was analyzed using a perceptually-based hierarchy of prosodic phrase group (HPG) framework in order to investigate similarities and differences in the organization of discourse-level speech planning in English across L1 (native) and L2 (non-native) speaker groups. While both groups appear to...

How do Americans acquire the impression that their political foes have some understandable basis for their views, and thus represent a legitimate opposition? How do they come to believe that reasonable people may disagree on any given political controversy? Given that few people talk regularly to those of opposing perspectives, some theorize that mass media, and television in particular, serve ...

In the article there is defined concept of comic as a rhetorical and semantic technique in public discourse, which exerts psychological behavioral influences. There are highlighted main features comic, particular: available for human perception; it causes laughter among representatives certain social group, demonstrates difference between different groups (motives comedy not global, they will b...

texts can be analysed from different perspectives. one of the most difficult phenomena to process is discourse structure (hovy 2010). in recent years, one of the main challenges in the field of natural language processing (nlp) has been discourse parsing. research on this topic has been done for several languages, such as Japanese (Sumita et al. 1992), english (marcu 2000) and portuguese (pardo...

Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religios...