This paper adopts a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis approach to explore the pragmatics of lexical categories in courtroom discourse. More specifically, this probes extent which interlocutors employ particular lexemes achieve specific pragmatic purposes, which, turn, contributes understanding way language operates effectively within legal settings. The data used is taken from testimo...

What is discourse analysis? Discourse analysis is about studying and analysing the uses of language. Because the term is used in many different ways, we have simplified approaches to discourse analysis into three clusters (table 1) and illustrated how each of these approachesmight be used to study a single domain: doctor-patient communication about diabetes management (table 2). Regardless of a...

Automated text analysis tools such as Coh-Metrix and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) provides overwhelming indices for text analysis, so fewer underlying dimensions are required. This paper developed an underlying component model for text analysis. The component model was developed from large English and Chinese corpora in terms of results from Coh-Metrix, and English and Chinese Lingu...

Business writing classes are often designed on the belief that Business writing in English is entirely different from Spanish. Therefore, the classes are an attempt to teach different types of business letters to students assuming that the students have no knowledge about business correspondence in English. However, simultaneously this class is assuming that the students' knowledge about the co...