The study examines the genre-defining features of speech genre “reminder” in virtual pedagogical discourse. relevance research is determined by its inclusion problems modern discourse studies (the problem discursive conditioning genre) and pedagogy involving computer technologies as a means platform for learning information-educational environment). Based on T. V. Shmeleva’s survey, act are des...

This paper presents a method for automatic summarization by deleting intra-sentence discourse segments. First, each sentence is divided into elementary discourse units and, then, less informative segments are deleted. To analyze the results, we have set up an annotation campaign, thanks to which we have found interesting aspects regarding the elimination of discourse segments as an alternative ...

Multi-documents sheets are viewed as semantically structured representations of textual documents. The automatic construction of these sheets is based on the automatic annotation of textual documents according to a set of discursive categories called discursive mining viewpoints. The automatic annotation of a text is performed using the Contextual Exploration processing. It is a linguistic and ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to outline the contribution of two strands of discursive research, glossed as 'macro' and 'micro,' to the field of health psychology. A further goal is to highlight some contemporary debates in methodology associated with the use of interview data versus more naturalistic data in qualitative health research. METHOD Discursive approaches provide a way of anal...

In this paper we present a poststructuralist analysis of customer database technology. This approach allows us to regard customer databases as configurations of language that produce new and significant discursive effects. In particular, we focus on the role of the databases and related technologies such as customer relationship management (CRM) in the discursive construction of both customers ...

It is argued that the view of nature and the relationship between human beings and nature that each of us holds impacts our decisions, actions, and notions of environmental responsibility and consciousness. In this study, I investigate the discursive patterns of selected environmental science classroom resources produced by three disparate subcommunities: the provincial government, a school dis...