Vision plays an important role in most everyday activities. Consistent with this, people with visual impairment are usually faced with significant challenges in their daily activities. In children, such activities include playing, reading, socialisation and taking care of their daily needs [1,2]. In the paediatric ophthalmological field, visual problems include high refractive errors, binocular...

It is sometimes claimed (cf. that discourse has a tree structure which reeects the semantic structure of discourse. In this paper, I argue that this claim is problematic in cases of discourse multiple dependencies i.e. cases where one discourse segment is semantically related to two discourse segments. I develop a discourse framework which is based on Scha/Polanyi 1988] but integrates ideas fro...

Abstract This retrospective review applies a language socialisation perspective in examining the findings of four-year research project on Swedish immersion Finland. Findings from nine sub-studies within are reported with point-of-view three key actors’ (teachers, students, and parents) processes. Results show that special feature teacher is its continuous attention toward additive multilingual...

Not much is known about the linguistic resources other than discourse connectors for signalling coherence relations. We present here non discourse connector resources for marking coherence relations, namely “discourse verbs” and “discourse prepositions”. “Discourse verbs” are verbs such as precede or cause which take as arguments eventualities or facts. They enter into competition with discours...