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Discourse connectives and discourse structure in Mandarin Chinese
Discourse connectives are regarded as the main linguistic device for the writer to guide the reader's inference toward the texts. Conversely, the reader's interpretation of the logical flow of the discourse is largely based on the distribution of discourse connectives. My primary concern in this …
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Birth Tourism Discourse in Canada
… and national media coverage, I argue that media discourses surrounding the arrival and existence of pregnant Chinese migrants, commonly referred to as ‘birth tourists,’ have detrimental effects on the treatment of pregnant Chinese migrants. My media analysis explores how Canada’s media …
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Modeling Narrative Discourse
… approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse. Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing techniques typically do not leverage the aspects that separate narrative from expository discourse. We describe two approaches to the problem. The …
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Discourse on Lightness
This thesis is an attempt to inquire into the interrelationship of transparency and structure. It focuses on the unveiling the layers of transparent and translucent materials which alternately obscure and reveal a sequence of views. The project aspires to create spaces with interplay of vision and …
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A critical discourse analysis of the new management discourse of virtual organisation
… To a significant extent however, the discourse of virtual organisation remains largely unstable, confused and disconnected, and moreover, frequently paradoxical. The thesis establishes and then addresses this condition by adopting a critical realist philosophy to access and explain the …
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Learner involvement in discourse : a contextualised discourse analysis of undergraduate online discussions
The study analyzes the discourse from online discussions in a Language and Communication Economics course at the University of Cape Town. The study critiques claims made by several researchers in Computer Mediated Communication that CMC as mode of Communication enhances interaction and produces …
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Focus and discourse stress
… stress, sentence stress, or more precisely, discourse stress, which is typically understood to mark new information or contrasts in sentences. Learners may have difficulties communicating in English if they fail to perceive or express the main point of utterances by means of stress. Previous …
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Discourse on Cabin 3
An adaptation of the Unabomber's cabin placed on four automobile wheels, Cabin 3 was installed as a hybrid cabin-vehicle-writing device on the elevated plaza in front of 105 Massachusetts Ave on MIT's campus. Inside the cabin was the same model typewriter used by the Unabomber to write his …
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A lover's discourse : fictions
This thesis sets a landscape to discuss intimacy as a political tool, using fiction as a methodology to create potency in the Arab world. Its concern with critique is on the actionable level. This document discusses projects that critique realities in Lebanon and the Arab World by proposing (1) …
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ThoughtSwap: Reinfrastructuring Classroom Discourse
Conscientious Discourse is an engagement where participants express their ideas truthfully, but also simultaneously focus on listening and responding to others. Facilitating and participating in conscientious classroom discourse is challenging. We present an approach — reinfrastructuring classroom …
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Empowering the powerful: a critical discourse analysis of public discourse on graduate employability
… employability in Malaysia as construed in public discourse in English, a language of power in Malaysia. The term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of Malaysia, the English-language ability of graduates is inseparable …
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Analyzing Navajo Discourse: Investigating Form and Function of Intonational Units in Referential Discourse
… establishment of a method to analyze actual discourse from a functional or usage based approach has not occurred. The goal of this study is twofold. The first is to establish a method to analyze spoken Navajo using the Intonation Units (IU) as a measure as it occurs in natural, uninterrupted …
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Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) aims to understand the link "between language and the social" (Mautner and Baker, 2009), and attempts to demystify social construction and power relations (Gramsci, 1999). On the other hand, corpus linguistics deals with principles and practice of understanding the …
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Morroccan classroom discourse and critical discourse analysis : the impact of social and cultural practice
… the linguistic features used by teachers. Such discourse features are IRF patterns, modality, politeness, Q/A and interruption. Although the analysis of the discoursal features of such interactions is of interest, it alone does not explain the nature of the relationship between pupils/ teachers. …
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Formulaic discourse patterning in mōteatea
… derived from a review of selected literature on discourse structure (Chapter 5) was also applied to the analysis of a sample of these mōteatea (Chapter 6). On the basis of this analysis, it is concluded that they exhibit one of two very similar discourse prototypes, each of which involves a …
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The discourse of cultural leadership.
… of cultural policy. Through critical discourse analysis the research questions the relationship between cultural leadership and cultural leaders, asking who creates the circumstances in which art is produced and culture shaped. Leadership itself is reconsidered theoretically as an …
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Computational modeling of discourse comprehension
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Reference in Udi narrative discourse
<p>This thesis examines concepts of reference assignment as seen in a written collection of narrative texts from Udi, a Caucasian language from the Lezgian family. This study explores the linguistic factors that affect reference assignment in Udi narrative in terms of participants, props and time …
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Screenplays : writing, discourse, and process
… documents, the thesis also contends with discourses that nominate screenwriting a lesser kind of writing than literary writing, writing that is not meant to be read; a formulaic mode of writing without agency, voice, complexity, or distinctiveness; a fixed and limited writing that is …
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Exile identity : a discourse analysis
This study focuses on the discourses of exile identity and the subjectivity of an individual born in exile. The study also focuses on the methodology used whereby, unlike traditional research where the researcher interviews subjects; in this case the subjects interview the researcher. 6 individuals …
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