Specificity of monodrama discourse

Specificity , Referentiality and Discourse Prominence : German

There are various notions of specificity, ranging from Fodor & Sag’s (1982) referentiality view to Givón’s (1983) discourse prominence view. Ionin (2006) discusses the relation between these two perspectives by analyzing the English indefinite this. She represents indefinite this as a referential operator in the sense of Fodor & Sag (1982), but also adds the felicity condition of “noteworthines...

Specificity and Definiteness in Sentence and Discourse Structure

The paper gives a contrastive analysis of the two semantic categories specificity and definiteness. It argues against the traditional picture that assumes that specific expressions are a subclass of indefinite NPs. The paper rather assumes that the two categories are independent of each other. Definiteness expresses the discourse pragmatic property of familiarity, while specificity mirrors a mo...

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...

Immunological specificity of Staphylococal penicillinase

critical discourse analysis of two political speeches in light of bakhtins dialogism

چکیده گفتگوگری باختین نظریه ای است که به تفاوت ها احترام گذاشته و گفتگو را ارج می نهد. رشته های مختلف علوم انسانی همواره از این نظریه بهره جسته اند. با وجود این تنها مطالعات اندکی در زمینه تجزیه و تحلیل نقادانه کلام به نظریه گفتگوگری پرداخته اند. پنداشت تحقیق حاضر بر آن است که احترام به حقوق دیگران از طریق فراهم آوردن شرایط یکسان برای بیان نظریات مختلف یکی از مهمترین مشترکات تحلیل انتقادی گفتم...