This study concerns the evolution of listeners’ production during narratives in a French conversational corpus. Using the method of Conversational analysis in a first part of the study, we show that listeners use different discursive devices throughout the narrative. In a second part, we attempt to estimate this behavior in a systematic way by measuring the richness of morphosyntactic categorie...

The paper examines the ways in which people talk about others of different culture or ethnic origin. I analyse interview talk of the British W.W.II veterans about their experiences at the prisoners of war camp in Japan and recent activities of reconciliation. Proposed is a discursive approach to the study of culture and cross-cultural communication, in comparison to work in cultural anthropolog...

Legislation that applies to UK SRE currently advocates inclusive provision. Given the nonstatutory status of SRE, however, it is unclear how teachers incorporate sexual inclusivity, especially as research has shown that teachers' discursive practices can promote a heteronormative SRE climate (Renn, 2010). Using a discursive psychological approach to analyze interview data, this study examined h...

The information expressed in humanistic datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication”, which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal r...

In this paper we introduce RHeSumaRST, a heuristics based system that aims at pruning an RST tree in order to yield its corresponding summary. Those heuristics focus especially on identifying when a discursive segment that embed an anaphoric term is chosen to compose the summary, in which case the discursive segment that embed its antecedent must also be chosen. To both address referentiality a...

This article uses a media industries studies perspective to investigate the current state of transmedia production in the United Kingdom. Analyzing the discursive statements of a range of industry participants from both U.K. television and games industries, the authors reveal a series of contradictions and misunderstandings that may be limiting the effectiveness of multi-platform projects. By c...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics Journal Article How to cite: Allington, Daniel (2005). Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics. Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and D...

This article compares and contrasts the way a set of fundamental issues are treated in social representations theory and discursive psychology. These are: action, representation, communication, cognition, construction, epistemology and method. In each case we indicate arguments for the discursive psychological treatment. These arguments are then developed and illustrated through a discussion of...

This paper deals with the description and the automatic tracking of text segments containing obsolescence in encyclopedia texts. We assume that despite the non-linguistic nature of this phenomenon, discursive cues are relevant to track those segments. For that purpose, we have worked on a corpus which has been manually annotated by experts and on which we have projected automatically tracked cu...

The introduction of electronic publishing, multimedia, the web and social media have influenced presented challenges for graphic design. Now implementation artificial intelligence (AI) features within design software enables practitioners to automate many processes. However, this threatens deskill profession create a second tier ‘non-professional’ designers, particularly less creative work that...