This study examined the relationship between performance on standardized measures of language proficiency and conversational measures of the same features used in academic discourse among 24 monolingual and 25 bilingual kindergarteners. Academic discourse performance was considered for both its linguistic and its genre features in two discourse forms: narrative and explanation. Bilinguals perfo...

The present paper combines two lines of research from discourse analysis and psychology by investigating thinking-aloud data and retrospective reports related to a cognitively demanding task, namely, a variant of the well-known Traveling Salesman Problem involving navigation to a set of goals. The analysis addresses the linguistic variability emerging from a discourse-analytic comparison of thr...

We describe an encoding scheme for discourse structure and reference, based on the TEI Guidelines and the recommendations of the Corpus Encoding Specification (CES). A central feature of the scheme is a CES-based data architecture enabling the encoding of and access to multiple views of a marked-up document. We describe a tool architecture that supports the encoding scheme, and then show how we...

We discuss and evaluate a new annotation scheme and discourse-analytic method, the QUD-tree framework. We present an annotation study, in which the framework, based on the concept of Questions under Discussion, is applied to English and German interview data, using TreeAnno, an annotation tool specially developed for this new kind of discourse annotation. The results of an inter-annotator agree...

The paper proposes to use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) analytic framework to identify systematic differences between deceptive and truthful stories in terms of their coherence and structure. A sample of 36 elicited personal stories, self-ranked as completely truthful or completely deceptive, is manually analyzed by assigning RST discourse relations among a story’s constituent parts. Vector...

This article analyzes tweets produced during the “fix country” campaign on Ghanaian Twitter. It illustrates how affordances of social media can empower campaigners and linguistic choices, even digital platforms, be conditioned by sociocultural context, spatiotemporal factors, local politics. The findings reveal three main discursive strategies utilized in to construct protest as a discourse con...