HEDGES EXPRESSIONS IN CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE OF IDA CRADDOCK’S SUICIDE NOTES

Weasels, Hedges and Peacocks: Discourse-level Uncertainty in Wikipedia Articles

Uncertainty is an important linguistic phenomenon that is relevant in many areas of language processing. While earlier research mostly concentrated on the semantic aspects of uncertainty, here we focus on discourseand pragmaticsrelated aspects of uncertainty. We present a classification of such linguistic phenomena and introduce a corpus of Wikipedia articles in which the presented types of dis...

Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

Credibility of suicide notes.

Appraisal of Opinion Expressions in Discourse

Opinions are the common stock of conversation; and yet, like many facets of every day life, they are difficult to analyze precisely. Roughly, research in sentiment analysis comes in two flavors: a psychological one and a computational one. Psychologists propose cognitive theories of emotions and affect of various sorts. We distinguish three main approaches: the discrete approach where emotions ...