We offer an experimental approach to the study of the types of implicatures generated by polar question intonation in American English and Majorcan Catalan, which is rising and falling, respectively. In a categorization task, we show that discourse context affects whether listeners perceive utterances produced with the polar question markers (PQMs) to be declaratives versus questions. Results f...

The present Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) study aimed to explore the probable ideological manipu- lations exerted in three translations of an English political book entitled The Coup by Ervand Abraha- mian. This comparative qualitative study was conducted based on Farahzad‘s three-dimensional CDA model. The textual, paratextual, and ...

Since the publication of “Nation at Risk” in 1983, educational policymakers have associated reform with the infusion of information and computer technologies (ICT) into schools. Therefore, billions of dollars have been spent on actualising this policy. Using the critical theory as a framework, this paper criticises whether it has been a wise decision given the reality of monetary and political ...

The alternative to be outlined provides a proposal to solve a central problem in research on discourse structure and discourse coherence, namely, as pointed out by many authors, that of the relationship between linguistic and intentional structure, or, in other words, between subject matter and presentational relations (Mann and Thompson 1988) or informational and intentional relations (Moore a...

Health is declared by citizens as one of the most important values, which makes it possible to address this topic within framework political discourse in order achieve goals. At same time, study manifestation and impact health on attitude individual social groups sphere remains an understudied area science. A healthy lifestyle literacy were not included list traditional although topics “health ...


 This study examines the femvertising discourse contained in MKS Shoes advertisement What Makes Us Women edition. The depiction of female figure is still synonymous with practice femininity where gender stereotypes apply to divide characteristics that women and men should have. making a text contains certain discourse. production also aimed at influencing ideological construction which li...

The British novelist Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is regarded as one of the three major dystopian science fiction novels 20th century. novel describes a future State where world superficially rich, but, rulers have gutted spiritual world. not only satire and critique reality but also reflection warning about Taking Foucault’s power discourse theory theoretical framework, this thesis explores...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....