Aiming at highlighting the important role of print media discourse in the implicit  transfer of  the dominant ideology of discourse context, the present data-driven paper demonstrates  how the lexical features of repetition and synonymy as well as the structural and thematic features of passivization, nominalization and predicated theme were utilized by the discourse producers to mediate betwee...

This paper describes our current efforts in empirical analysis of human-human dialogue interaction data. The methods we propose abstracts away from the linguistic content of a dialogue to analyze acoustic and interaction phenomena directly. The focus is on properties of the speech signal and on language-independent interaction behavior as opposed to information content of the utterances exchang...

This review examined previous research applications of linguistic discourse analysis to assess the language of adults with aphasia. A comprehensive literature search of seven databases identified 165 studies that applied linguistic measures to samples of discourse collected from people with aphasia. Analysis of methodological applications revealed an increase in published research using linguis...

We present a cross-lingual discourse relation analysis based on a parallel corpus with discourse information available only for one language. First, we conduct a corpus study to explore differences in discourse organization between Chinese and English, including differences in information packaging, implicit/explicit discourse expression divergence, and discourse connective ambiguities. Second,...

A corpus analysis of discourse relations for Natural Language Generation Sandra Williams and Ehud Reiter Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE. E-mail: swilliam/[email protected] Abstract We are developing a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that generates texts tailored for the reading ability of individual readers. As part of building the syste...

We argue that finite clauses should be regarded as the basic unit in syntactic analysis of spoken language, and describe a method that automatically detects clause boundaries by classifying coordinating conjunctions in spoken language discourse as belonging to either the syntactic level or the discourse level of analysis. The method exploits the special role that coordinating conjunctions play ...

It is not difficult to make claims for the academic success of Critical Discourse Analysis. Chouliaraki and Fairclough begin their new book Discourse in Late Modernity with the statement: ‘Critical discourse analysis ... has established itself internationally over the past twenty years or so as a field of crossdisciplinary teaching and research which has been widely drawn upon in the social sci...