the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

Purpose: This study sought to determine the effects of, and satisfaction with, intensive computer-assisted treatment for anomia using commercially available software with persons who have chronic aphasia. Method: Six participants with chronic aphasia used eight Parrot Software programs in an intensive 32-hour treatment protocol lasting 4 weeks. The study measured the effect of this treatment on...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. 47 courses at various faculties of the Open University in Israel and found that the majority (80%) of students contributed only a small amount (20%) of mes...

A growing body of discourse-analytic studies demonstrates that within the legal system, spoken language that undergoes entextualization is transformed in a variety of sociopolitically consequential ways. Through the analysis of a legal case involving the institutional entextualization of incriminating language—an FBI summary log of wiretapped telephone calls between suspected drug dealers—the a...

Early studies of gender differences in discourse (e.g., Johnson, 1994; Jones, 1980) have drawn attention to the depreciation of women’s discourse, which has often been associated with gossip, i.e., casual, idle chat about intimate or domestic topics. Recent efforts have been made, however, to overcome this normative approach and to investigate the goals and functions that gossip may serve among...

A metatheory is presented and diagrammed as an integrated conceptual framework for information seeking and use. It represents the symbiotic relationship between users and the technological environment. Receiving and adapting to information is achieved through each user’s biological satisficing procedures defined by group information practices, namely, noticing information, appraising it and eva...

Mandarin Chinese fluent speech prosody is characterized by a hierarchical multiple-phrase structure that specifies how speech paragraphs are constituted via Prosodic Phrase Grouping. Hence we view spoken discourse prosody as yet another higher node treats PGs (Prosodic Phrase Groups) as sister constituents. The goals of present study are two fold: one is to study how speech paragraphs are conne...

Children are known to use different types of referential gestures (e.g., deictic, iconic) from a very young age. In contrast, their use of non-referential gestures is not well established. This study investigated the use of stroke-defined non-referential ‘beat’ gestures in a story-retelling and an exposition task by twelve 6-year-olds, an age at which proficiency in discourse is beginning to de...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. 47 courses at various faculties of the Open University in Israel and found that the majority (80%) of students contributed only a small amount (20%) of mes...

The fundamental problem in discourse is "What structure is there in discourse above the level of the sentence?" This question can be asked in terms of text versus dialogue. Is there a kind of structure that is exhibited in text but not in dialogue, or in dialogue but not in text? What are the appropriate structural descriptions of text and of dialogue? The question can also be asked from the pe...