The general perspectives of child abuse issues are derived from the mainstream media. However, media’s tendency to sensationalise cases attract viewership may distort readers’ understanding and further propagate maltreatment. This study investigates language used in Malaysian news discourse on using Karpenko-Seccombe et al.’s (2020) method analysis Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SF...

This paper describes first steps towards extending the METU Turkish Corpus from a sentence-level language resource to a discourse-level resource by annotating its discourse connectives and their arguments. The project is based on the same principles as the Penn Discourse TreeBank (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~pdtb) and is supported by TUBITAK, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of ...

We contrast two views of how contextual influence on sentence meaning composition can be explained. The Semantic Similarity View maintains that discourse context affects sentence meaning mainly because of the semantic similarity between the words in the discourse context and the words in the sentence (as measured by Latent Semantic Analysis). The Free Pragmatic View, in contrast, defends the cl...

The aim of this study is to present a detailed interpretation the speech acts posts and responses in discourse analysis on Facebook. research was handled 20 Donald Trump Hillary Clinton public people for each post. conversations were between politicians people. chosen methods quantitative qualitative analysis. results indicate that politicians’ direct rather than indirect relation act. Then, by...