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From sign to text : a semiotic view of communication
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The article was published on 1985-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Semiotic information theory & Sign (semiotics).read more
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“There was a Problem, and it was Solved!”: Legitimating the Expulsion of `Illegal' Migrants in Spanish Parliamentary Discourse:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine some discursive aspects of political legitimation by analyzing the speech of the Spanish Secretary of the Interior, Mayor Oreja; on the occasion of a military-style expulsion of a group of African migrants from Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, in the summer of 1996.
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‘Pragmatic weight’ and Spanish subject pronouns: The pragmatic and discourse uses of ‘tú’ and ‘yo’ in spoken Madrid Spanish
TL;DR: The authors argue that the function of overt subject pronouns is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics; they are used pragmatically and meta-linguistically to switch reference, for purposes of emphasis and negotiating conversational turns, and to add "pragmatic weight" to frames of reference, epistemic parentheticals and potential speech act verbs.
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Parent involvement in children’s homework in American and Swedish dual-earner families.
Leah Wingard,Lucas Forsberg +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study analyzes parent involvement by employing ethnographic methods and discourse analysis of parent-child talk about homework and finds that parent involvement may be either parent or child initiated, and varies widely according to how much homework the child is assigned, the child's orientation to homework and a number of other factors.
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Two Modes of Understanding: Comprehending and Grasping.
TL;DR: The authors identify and describe two distinct modes of understanding, which they call "comprehending" and "grasping" for communicative acts involving at least two persons, whereby a relationship is established between them, based on the use of language in a given context.
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Marking, markedness, and person-gender-number patterning in the arabic tenses and moods
TL;DR: The inflectional system of the verb in Contemporary Standard Arabic (henceforth: Arabic) provides an instructive example of the relationship between the meaning of grammatical categories and their paradigmatic morphological encoding, that is, between semantje markedness and morphological marking as mentioned in this paper.