the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

The participants in a conversation share a lot more than information about the propositional content of statements. Among other things, they share information about each other’s intentions or about whose turn it is to speak; they also spend a lot of their time synchronizing their views of the common ground [Clark, 1996]. Utterances update this ‘pragmatic’ aspects of the common ground as well as...

The effects of utterances such as cue phrases, keep-turn markers, and grounding signals cannot be characterized as changes to a shared record of the propositions under discussed: the simplest (and arguably most natural) way of characterizing the meaning of these utterances is in terms of a theory in which the conversational score is seen as a record of the discourse situation, or at least of th...

We use the idea that actions performed in a conversation become part of the common ground as the basis for a model of context that reconciles in a general and systematic fashion the differences between the theories of discourse context used for reference resolution, intention recognition, and dialogue management. We start from the treatment of anaphoric accessibility developed in DRT, and we sh...

Edinburgh University for their helpful comments and suggestions. I am also grateful to the participants of ITALLC 96, the anonymous referees for that conference and for this volume, and to the audience of a seminar I gave at the University of Texas at Austin in September 1996, for many perceptive questions and comments on this paper and related work.

critical analysis of power discourse in zeinab habash’s poems discourse analysis is a modern approach which flourishing and growing in the context of postmodernism. norman fairclough’s three-dimensional framework in critical discourse analysis is one of the most practical aspects of this theory that includes analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (process...

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...

From a plausible cognitive hypothesis explaining how little children develop complex meaning structures, we come to the conclusion that linguistic meanings are planned. The plans, we call them discourse plans, are tree-like structures composed of primitive situations and establishing referential links between the situations and the context. Linguistic meanings are second order Lambda-terms deri...

The purpose of this research is to find out law students’ level of competence with reference to listening skills in Pakistani academic settings. For this, four areas of listening were taken into account: a) listening to lectures, b) listening to classroom presentations, c) listening in group/pair work, and d) listening to judges in mock oral arguments. After a review of literature in the field ...