Minitexts in modern educational discourse: Functions and trends

Modern Trends in Language Teaching: Discourse Approach to Text Interpretation

In this paper we develop discourse approach to text interpretation. Being concerned with the study of language in use (written texts of all kinds and spoken data, from conversation to highly institutionalized forms of talk), discourse analysis has built a significant foundation for applied linguistics, including ELT. Discourse approach to text interpretation implies three-dimensional semiotic a...

Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue

We describe a generic set of tools for representing, annotating, and analysing multi-party discourse, including: an ontology of multimodal discourse, a programming interface for that ontology, and NOMOS – a flexible and extensible toolkit for browsing and annotating discourse. We describe applications built using the NOMOS framework to facilitate a real annotation task, as well as for visualisi...

Modern trends in leprosy.

Modern Trends in Leprosy. SIR-I have read with much interest the above paper by Dr D. G. Jamison (Postgrad. med. J., 1969, 45, 408). On page 412 the author says: 'The Mycobacterium leprae has for generations been assumed to enter the body through the skin. Recently various other routes have been proposed (Weddell et al., 1963) such as the intestinal and respiratory tracts; and in babies, breast...

Modern Trends

Voluntary sterilization is the most prevalent method of fertility regulation, and its use is widespread in both developed and developing countries. The estimated number of couples controlling their fertility through sterilization has increased dramatically from 15 million in 197Oi to 100 million in 1980.” The country reporting the highest prevalence of use is the United States, where 31.3% of m...

Modern Trends in Dermatology