Automatic extraction of key sentences from academic presentation speeches is addressed. The method makes use of the characteristic expressions used in initial utterances of sections, which are defined as discourse markers and derived in a totally unsupervised manner based on word statistics. The statistics of the discourse markers are then used to define the importance of the sentences. It is a...

Lexical bundles are empirically derived formulaic units of language which are register-specifi c and perform a variety of discourse functions. Because these units of language contribute to the linguistic make up of specifi c registers, they can be important indicators for determining the success of language users within these discourse communities. Therefore, language learners need to assimilat...

This article seeks to evaluate and take further the discussion put forward by Visser and Jehan (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 14, no. 2: 127–40). It begins by focusing on the biomedical discourse, its dominance in the academic and professional literature and why the existence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a medical category is questionable. This is followed by a...

This paper argues that general skills and the varieties of subjectspecific discourse are both important for teaching, learning and practising critical thinking. The former is important because it outlines the principles of good reasoning simpliciter (what constitutes sound reasoning patterns, invalid inferences, and so on). The latter is important because it outlines how the general principles ...

T 009 port 970 Gib men Chr sis. //ww A Bola Cog 705 graphs (e.g., duck) and were preceded by a biasing context sentence. The homograph in the target sentence was always disambiguated by a case-marked pronoun, e.g., She saw his/him duck. Lexical bias effects (reflecting the relative frequency of the noun and verb forms) were found in the initial fixations on the homograph. In contrast, discourse...