Referential continuity and the coherence of discourse

Referential continuity and the coherence of discourse.

Two experiments were carried out to investigate the role of referential continuity in understanding discourse. In experiment I, a group of university students listened to s?ories and descriptive passages presented in three different versions: the original passages, versions in which trCze sentences occurred in a random order, and randomised versions in which referential continuity had been rest...

on the relationship between using discourse markers and the quality of expository and argumentative academic writing of iranian english majors

the aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency and the type of discourse markers used in the argumentative and expository writings of iranian efl learners and the differences between these text features in the two essay genres. the study also aimed at examining the influence of the use of discourse markers on the participants’ writing quality. to this end the discourse markers us...

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

Spatial Descriptions and Referential Continuity

Three experiments were carried out in which subjects drew diagrams to depict spatial layouts corresponding to such three-sentence verbal descriptions as: "The apple is on the left of the banana. The banana is in front of the carrot. The carrot is on the left of the doughnut." In Experiment 1, a referentially continuous description in which each adjacent pair of sentences had a referent in commo...

Title: Coreference and Discourse Coherence in L2: the Roles of Grammatical Aspect and Referential Form