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Productive vocabulary across discourse types [PDF]
AIMS: The goals of the study were (a) to examine the effect of discourse type on lexical diversity by testing whether there are significant differences among language samples elicited using four discourse tasks (procedures, eventcasts, story telling, and recounts); and (b) to assess the extent to which age influences lexical diversity when different ...
Gerasimos, Fergadiotis +2 more
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From Discourse Relations to Network Edges: A Network Theory Approach to Discourse Analysis
In this paper, we argue that discourse representations can be mapped to networks and analyzed by tools provided in network theory so that deep properties of discourse structure are revealed.
Alexandros Tantos, Kosmas Kosmidis
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Discovering English tense-backshift parameters through discourse
English grammars and teaching materials often fail to include references to specific discoursal and communicative functions. This facilitates the foreign language acquisition process during which learners acquire basic linguistic skills. The teaching of
Silvana Orel Kos
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Effectiveness of Education in Polish Discourse – Types and Variables
Introduction: The effectiveness of education in literature is described in the theoretical and application areas. Efficiency directly connotes multidimensionality and multithreading.
Rafał Ireneusz Wawer
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Types of discourse and textual construction of knowledge
Assuming that language plays a main role in the development of the individual throughout life, the aim of this paper is to reflect on the mechanisms which upgrade the textual and linguistic construction of knowledge.
Noémia Oliveira Jorge
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Linguistic creativity and discourse profiles of English language children’s novels
Contemporary discourse studies face the necessity to develop the methods of contrastive sub-discourse analysis which apply numeric and comparable data to diversify and describe sub-discourse types.
Maria I. Kiose
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ECONOMIC DISCOURSE AS A TYPE OF INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE
The research deals with the study of the English language economic discourse and its basic characteristics. The object of the article is discourse in general and the main approaches to its interpretation. The subject of the investigation is the English economic discourse as one of its institutional types.
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FAMILY STORIES IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF DISCOURSE
Introduction: the last decades are characterized by a rising tide of interest of Russian citizens for the history of their families. The main form of its existence are family stories - both about the present of the family and its subjects, and about ...
A. Yu. Pomnikova
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LINGUISTIC EXPERTISE IN LEGAL DISCOURSE: TYPES AND ASPECTS
The article is devoted to the relevance of special linguistic knowledge in legal discourse and the determination of the competence of an expert linguist. It features the analyses of the basis for the use of linguistic expertise in the aspect of the legal
M. V. Batyushkina
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Types of Metaphors in The English Legal Discourse
The main purpose of my paper is that of analyzing English legal discourse and legal texts belonging to different genres within the same subject field, in this case legal English, from the point of view of the variety of metaphors it consists of. Metaphor
Jumanca Romaniţa
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