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...

This paper examines the possibility of technology supporting and facilitating the organisation and development of knowledge in a particular field through critical discourse. Three examples of discourse-structuring technologies have been investigated to determine whether selected software might support critical discourse to capture the knowledge required to structure academic debate. It is envis...

The topic of race is often ignored, glossed over, or diluted with other concepts such as multicultural issues or diversity. We know that racial opinions, feelings, and beliefs operate in subtle but powerful ways even when there is no explicit intention. Unfortunately, racial discourse is curiously absent or under-discussed in the academic arena (Apple, 1999). In the academic domain where the qu...

the present study aimed to investigate the generic organization of research article introductions in local iranian and international journals in english for specific purposes, english for general purposes, and discourse analysis. overall, 120 published articles were selected from the established journals representing the above subdisciplines. each subdiscipline was represented by 20 local and 2...