Critical Discourse Analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. This study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced ELT textbooks. The findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. Regarding social relations, friend was ...

The Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) was released to the public in 2008. It remains the largest manually annotated corpus of discourse relations to date. Its focus on discourse relations that are either lexically grounded in explicit discourse connectives or associated with sentential adjacency has not only facilitated its use in language technology and psycholinguistics but also has spawned the ...

Our research project investigates the effects of discourse features (particularly discourse connectives) on reading for adult beginner readers. The documents used in our experiments will be generated using a natural language generation (NLG) system. We plan a series of experiments with adult beginner readers of known reading level. The experiments will investigate the difficulty (or ease) such ...

This article explores a neglected question in ongoing debates about counter-terrorism efforts Nigeria: How is Nigeria’s strategy discursively framed? The argues, part, that essentially political activity which contributes to the production of specific Nigerian identity by designating north-eastern Nigeria and Lake Chad Basin as “ungoverned” spaces. construction through geography, though, has im...

Political novel is one of the kinds of Persian Literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  These types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (CDA) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...

A critical discourse analysis (CDA) of English language teaching (ELT) textbooks can provide a theoretical description of existing ideological effects in the texts and a means to link linguistic and social practices. This study, thus, seeks to evaluate Summit 2B (i.e., the advanced book of Top Notch series) with a focus on the representation of male and female social actors. In so doing, this s...