context in discourse analysis

... meanings in the text (Treiman, 2001) In this sense, top-down reading strategies contain predicting, inferring, and focusing on meanings (Grabe 1991) Reading is actually ―a psychological guessing ... Discourse Unpublished Analysis and the MA thesis, Testing University of of Reading Birmingham, English Language Research Goodman K (1970) ―‖Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game.‖ In H Singer, ... (1982) Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language Oxford: Heinemann Palmer, J.A (1983a) Getting into text: Cohesion in Cross Currents XI 42 Tomlison, B (1990) Managing Change in Indonesian...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:05

... superordinate is extremely common in English Discourse In the example above, instead of using “furniture” we can use “items”, or “objects”, or “things” And these are called general superordinate since ... used in the photographic industry and in making medicinal capsules [22, p.369] c) Complex Sentences Alternatively, a sentence may contain a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses (introduced ... Nominalisation is another grammatical device which helps forming Inclusiveness for business contracts in English According to our survey, nominalisation is used quite often in English business...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... Contents about discourse and discourse analysis are mentioned in many books: [5], [30],[13], [14], ect In Vietnam, the study of discourse and discourse analysis has been done by many linguists such ... In this thesis I view discourse as language in use or stretches of language which has meaning, unity and purpose 2.2.2 Discourse Analysis In this part, we review some definitions related to discourse ... are shown in the table (4.4) 4.2.2 Intensifiers in EFRs and VFRs Below is the table showing intensifiers in EFRs and VFRs: Table 4.5 Intensifiers in EFRs and VFRs English Vietnamese Intensifiers...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:26

... Features of Text 2.2.2 Discourse & Discourse Analysis 2.2.2.1 Concept of Discourse 2.2.2.2 Concept of Discourse Analysis 2.2.3 Written and Spoken Discourse 2.2.4 Formal and Informal Discourse 2.2.5 ... study is on the discourse analysis of EGSs so the concept of discourse analysis, text, cohesion, and coherence are included in this chapter I have chosen the viewpoints of some linguists such as ... positive statement and inspire the graduates for the future Students will not just be thinking about their achievements but also be waking up to facing the future and maintaining contact with friends...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:27

... domain Thus, there are some interesting points that need deeper research : An investigation into speech acts in EOASs An investigation into thematisation in EOASs More study on word order in EOASs ... I with 975 instances accounting for 76.4% is found in this study In these cases, the speaker sets a subject position for himself as an individual –the award winner One interesting thing is that ... Model are mainly presented in EOASs In addition, closing contributes a minor part in finishing the speech This is also a important element to make a good impression on the audience The indispensable...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:28

... 3.Conative (influencing behaviour: ordering, begging, emphasis on addressee) 4.Phatic (e.g Hello! establishing or maintaining social relationships emphasis on the contact) 5.Metalingual (referring to ... that the analysis of discourse is, necessarily the analysis of language in use [17], [26] 2.2.2 Overview of Advertising on the Internet 2.2.2.1 Definition of Advertising Especially, a definition ... end of one line with that in the next line (67) Stop scrolling Stop searching Start watching Get TV weekly magazine TV the finder Table 4.10d Parallel structure of English Ads on the internet 22...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29

... by adding incentives, creating more convincing reasons, finding more persuasiveness credible source, and so on In English 4.1.1 Making Messages more Persuasive more expert or attractive to increase ... strategy contains directive most in both EAs and VAs (81.2% in voice in VAs (100% for each strategy) Passive sentences used in EAs and 88.9 %in VAs) However, the difference in using directive in persuasive ... method is used to give a detailed description by adding incentives, creating more convincing reasons, finding more of some persuasion strategies in English and Vietnamese credible source, and so...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29

... Synthesizing, discussing the findings, and drawing conclusions - Suggesting some implications for teaching and learning as the analysis consisting of fifty samples in English and fifty in Vietnamese ... follows: - In the beginning section, both include the title, introduction, recitals, and end-marking sentence - In the body section, both have the two parts: obligatory and normative - In the ending ... litigation 2.2.1.2.Concepts of Discourse 2.2.2 Written and Spoken Discourse 2.2.3 Formal and Informal Discourse 2.2.4 Cohesion and Coherence in Discourse c Inclusiveness Inclusiveness that means to...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... Sub-function INTRODUCING THE BOOK Defining the general topic of the book Informing about potential readership Informing about the author Making topic generalizations Inserting the book in the field OUTLINING ... meaning in the context of communication 2.2.3 Context and Co-text 2.2.3.1 Context Nunan (1993: 7) [36] states that context refers to the situation giving rise to the discourse within the discourse ... Thus, use of nominal metaphor is an effective choice in drawing the vivid images corresponding to its meaning 4.2.2 Intensifiers According to Quirk (1985) [38], Intensifier is amplifying the effect...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... picture of discourse analysis Most of their works equip us with insights to investigate language in use In Vietnam, linguists have joined in the trend of researching on discourse analysis as ... alone guidelines or emphasis, in the courses on writing skills in Vietnam In the light of the theory on discourse analysis, more typically genre analysis, the study “A Discourse Analysis of College ... Arising out of a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, psychology, and anthropology, discourse analysis has become one of the significant foundations in applied linguistics Discourse...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:31

... preliminary issues in discourse analysis and made a distinction between text and discourse, spoken and written discourse We have also seen how important context is in discourse 14 analysis In the ... verbal interactions or joint activities and experiences, and it includes privileged personal knowledge about the interlocutor In short, context plays a very important role in discourse analysis A discourse ... languages Since doing discourse analysis is involved in many domains, we necessarily have to impose constraints on our subject-matter We only deal with presuppositions expressed in discourse and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... with the choice of intensifiers like A " D :" ^ U " U i" b E" A The below table is a summary of vocbaulary choice analysis in the headlines: Table 5: Choice of vocabulary in headlines/leads * ! ! ... terrorism in Vietnamese newspapers # Even a quick glance at the headlines and leads presented in the above table can tell the negativity of Iraq war suggested by the lexical choices used in the headlines ... Participants and Circumstances described in the text Transitivity provides us with the potential to group the infinite variety of occurrences into a finite set of process types, namely Material,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/02/2014, 14:46

... sections, we show how the distinct mechanisms for recovering these types of missing information interact with two types of discourse inference to predict the phenomena noted in the previous section ... Like gapping, VP-ellipsis results in an empty constituent in the syntax, in this case, a verb phrase However, unlike gapping, VP-ellipsis also results in an independently anaphoric form in the ... by virtue of the inferences resulting from identifying parallel elements and properties, including that John is a young aspiring politician and that he's a Democrat (since Clinton is identified...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... friendly international relations by strengthening their free institutions, by bringing about a better understanding of the principles upon which these institutions are founded, and by promoting conditions ... United Kingdom due to the alphabetical order, has always been playing a very important role for its own interest in running different organizations, including NATO, when participating in them ... and he has an interest in “uncovering inequality, power relationships, injustices, discrimination, bias, etc” Fairclough [1] has had the ideas in common with most of the above interpretations...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... be difficult In a few cases, sitting on sofa turned into lying, while persons sitting in a more relaxed position resulted in a posture in between lying and sitting In one sequence, bending was totally ... Bounding box, motion and context information Shoaib et al [23] Single Activity zone Home Context information McKenna et al Single Inactivity zones Home Context infor[11] mation Proposed Single ... activity analysis and classification involves the recognition of discrete actions, like walking, sitting, standing up, bending and falling [12] Some application areas that involve visual activity analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... difficult In a few cases, sitting on sofa turned into lying, while persons sitting in a more relaxed position resulted in a posture in between lying and sitting In one sequence, bending was Figure ... Bounding box, motion and context information Shoaib et al [23] Single Activity zone Home Context information McKenna et al [11] Single Inactivity zones Home Context information Proposed method Single ... component analysis on the refined floor blocks to find clusters iii delete the clusters containing just single block iv define the edge blocks for each connected component v find the corner points...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... Critical Discourse Analysis in foreign language teaching and learning Why Critical Discourse Analysis can contribute to teaching and learning foreign languages? We will limit ourselves to teaching ... preestablished view of the world presented in reading texts In short, since discourses and texts are vital in education in general and foreign language teaching and learning in particular, how to use texts ... establishing and maintaining unequal Đại học Vinh Tạp chí khoa học, tập XXXVI, số 1b-2007 power relations Language mediates ideology in a variety of social institutions According to Thompson (quoted in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 14:20

... frame analysis is a type of discourse analysis that would be able to shed light on context that mediate this change in meaning Discourse analysis is important for various reasons For the linguists, ... College Composition Discourse analysis is defined as the analysis of language beyond the sentence This type of analysis is different from those done by modern linguistics, which mainly involves the ... appealing to the intuitive sense of the individual As a college teacher teaching observe difficulties among college student include writing effective sentences in a paragraph, conceptualizing a...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2014, 05:05