Abstract Numerous studies on political discourse claim that metaphors help politicians to construct coherent arguments convince their voters. Yet, most of them, with a few notable exceptions, do not adhere any theory argumentation. In this paper, we integrate Discourse Dynamic Approach Metaphor Inference Anchoring Theory enhance our understanding the interaction and in dynamic discourse. Our da...

background considering the cognitive and linguistic complexity of discourse production, it is expected that individuals with traumatic brain injury (tbi) should face difficulties in this task. therefore, clinical examination of discourse has become a useful tool for studying and assessment of communication skills of people suffering from tbi. among different genres of discourse, persuasive disc...

This study employs the framework of responses proposed by Harris (1991), notion implicature as defined Thomas (1995), and dimensions resistance introduced Clayman (2001) to examine types in Malaysian Parliamentary Question Time. Analysis revealed tendency using direct, indirect, evasive specific questions for various reasons. Direct answers were observed that could reflect positively on governm...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

We are concerned with the proper form for the structures which serve as the output of strategic generation and the input to tactical generation. How should the elements of this structure be discovered and how they should be arranged? In both respects, our proposals will contrast with those of Rhetorical Structure Theory [Mann and Thompson]. Major components of the structure are discourse relati...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

The paper examines the specifics of using philosophical concepts Ayn Rand as basis political discourse by radical opposition Russian Federation in its goals and perceptions target audience. study used descriptive, structural comparative analyses. authors reveal prerequisites for synthesis elements liberalism objectivism opposition’s dispersion results among mass protest

Sentences form coherent relations in a discourse without discourse connectives more frequently than with connectives. Senses of these implicit discourse relations that hold between a sentence pair, however, are challenging to infer. Here, we employ Brown cluster pairs to represent discourse relation and incorporate coreference patterns to identify senses of implicit discourse relations in natur...

Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...