Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently during information-seeking dialogs in task domains. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances. Discourse expectations and focusing heuristics are used to facilitate recognition of an information-seeker's intent in uttering an elliptical fragment. The ellipsis is comprehended by identifying both the as...

Aim. To analyze historical formation of the terms “discourse” and “discursive marker” their current interpretation. Methodology. Content analysis, as a key research method, enables author to study dictionaries linguistic well researches devoted issues discourse discursive markers. The analyzed content terms, summarized information made number conclusions. Results . At present stage development ...

The issue of correct discourse management is important in speech general and media particular, namely interviews. If we take dialodicality - the peculiarity an interview as a genre into account, which characterized by duality (it means double process giving receiving information: communication between journalist respondent on one hand, based this communication, editor reader other), Fluent doub...

This study examined what discourse markers (DM) and their characteristics are in English. It described the range of uses of English discourse markers in conversations included in Interchange books. It also determined the most frequently used discourse markers. It was found that "oh" and "well" were the most frequently used discourse markers in the conversations, and then the functions of them w...

We show that surface-level markers of pragmatic intent can be used to recognize the important sentences in text and can thereby improve the performance of text summarization systems. In particular, we focus on using automated detection of rhetorical figures—characteristic syntactic patterns of persuasive language—to provide information for an additional metric to enhance the performance of the ...

Abstract This article studies you bet and related phrases when they are used as a parenthetical free-standing response. Drawing on range of corpora, we provide both contemporary historical perspectives the set pragmatic expressions that has largely escaped scholars’ attention. Synchronically, demonstrate colloquial American markers to express speaker certainty/affirmation or respond thanks. Dia...

Research on L2 learners’ success at development and appropriate use of pragmatic ability and knowledge has mostly approached the issue from a cognitive or social perspective, and less attention has been devoted to the problem from the equally important emotional or individual-psychological lenses. This study sought to explore, first, the interplay between Iranian advanced EFL learners’ pragmati...