Cohesion as an indispensable linguistic feature in discourse analysis and translation has aroused many researchers' interest. To explore the regularity in shifting cohesive devices from English into Chinese our study was designed to analyze the similarities and differences of cohesive devices between English medical texts (EMTs) and their Chinese translation texts (CTTs). A parallel corpus cons...

The present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means for information highlighted by advanced Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language. The study focused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre-posing, it- and Wh-clefts. After taking the Nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. ...

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...

the present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. to this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused english and persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedenglish and persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

This study was an attempt to investigate the application of Fairclough's (2003) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and Social Semiotic Approach (SSA) proposed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) in analyzing ads discourse i.e. an approach that combines textual analysis with semiotic analysis in studying advertising. This combined approach was checked in two sample ads extracted from 'Time' ...

We present a study about automated discourse analysis of oral narrative language in adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). The basis of this evaluation is an existing dataset of fictional narrations of individuals with ASD and two matched comparison groups. We use three robust measures for quantifying different aspects of text cohesion on this corpus. These measures and several comb...

We investigate implicit corrections in the form of contrastive discourse in childadult interaction, which have been argued to contribute to language learning. In contrast to previous work in psycholinguistics, we adopt a data-driven methodology, using comparably large amounts of data and leveraging computational methods. We conduct a corpus study on the use of parental corrective feedback and s...

Abstract Recently, the integration of linguistics and technology has been promoted widely used in field English writing research for several purposes. One those purposes is to evaluate as a Foreign Language (EFL) ability by using electronic assessment tools. In current study, an automated evaluation tool (Coh-Metrix) was indicate English-major students’ performances based on discourse component...

The focus of this article is to present the discipline Cross-Cultural Discourse Analysis and show how approach was used in analysis business language coursebooks published France United Kingdom. After presenting foundations discipline, two areas comparison will be explored. first area concerns representation professional activity examines work women men represented differently both languages. s...