Like speakers of any natural language, speakers of English potentially have many different word orders in which to encode a single meaning. One key factor in speakers’ use of certain non-canonical word orders in English is their ability to contribute information about syntactic and semantic discourse relations. Explicit annotation of discourse relations is a difficult and subjective task. In or...

This paper investigates the morpho-syntactic features of bilingual discourse made in blog articles by Chinese students studying in English speaking countries. The identified grammatical patterns of adjective, nominal and verbal constituents with Chinese and English fused together are used to testify and evaluate the Matrix Language hypothesis, which remains the central tenet of Myers-Scotton’s ...

The goal of this paper is to explore the role of clause subordination in discourse structure. Through the study of the French subordinating conjunction avant que (English before) and its interaction with discourse context, I will attempt to show that clause subordination can affect temporal structure and also discourse structure, by conveying either subordination or coordination between discour...

Currently, the application of the network resources and various means of teaching such as multimedia into the classroom has led to the demonstration of multimodality in college English teaching. This paper analyzes the current status of college English teaching and the existing problems, elaborates the research trends of the theory of multimodal discourse analysis, and aims to explore the quest...

Currently, the application of the network resources and various means of teaching such as multimedia into the classroom has led to the demonstration of multimodality in college English teaching. This paper analyzes the current status of college English teaching and the existing problems, elaborates the research trends of the theory of multimodal discourse analysis, and aims to explore the quest...

Writing projects are socially-situated identities. The rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. Through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in Persian and English (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether Persian native writers take on the...

This article examines the discourse of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT). Using Dryzek’s (2005) discourse analysis of 1970s survivalism, I assess whether OPT’s work is simply a return to the survivalism described by Dryzek. I look to see how climate change has influenced survivalist discourse in recent years, and at the key role of women’s rights and fertility in OPT discourse. The first secti...

Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete agent-based model based on graph theory and local optimization. In a series of thought experiments, actors compute their utility of contributing a ...

CDA is an approach to the analysis of language use that, based on the claims of van Dijk(1995), has a social and ideological approach to discourse. Critical discourse analysis gainssignificance particularly with the analysis of political texts considering their role inestablishing force, identity, and political ideology. This study took an initiative criticalperspective towards the rather under...