Each utterance of a discourse either bears a semantic relation to a preceding utterance, or constitutes the onset of a new semantic unit. Thus, a critical task in discourse understanding is determining how to relate each new utterance to the current representation of the discourse, Sequences of semantically related utterances are referred to as segrnents. The discourse intentions of the speaker...

BACKGROUND Considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) should face difficulties in this task. Therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from TBI. Among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more...

The profound institutionalisation of the European Union through supranationalism ensured universal standing for Euro-centric interpretation this concept in comparative legal and political studies. This Chapter, opposition, validates regional post-Soviet Eurasian space its variation both academic discourse practices. Chapter primarily scrutinises legal-historical deconstruction region within thr...