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Discourse analysis
About: Discourse analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 515384 citations. The topic is also known as: DA & discourse studies.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a movement is seen in the intellectual capital reporting debate, which can be approached as two different discourses of transparency, namely one discourse based on generic reporting versus a second discourse driven by management driven information.
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01 Jan 2012TL;DR: New approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse are described, covering a set of fables as well as longer texts including literary fiction and epic poetry, and it is shown that human raters prefer such a measure of similarity to a more traditional one based on the semantic distances between story propositions.
Abstract: This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse. Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing techniques typically do not leverage the aspects that separate narrative from expository discourse. We describe two approaches to the problem. The first approach considers the conversational networks to be found in literary fiction as a key aspect of discourse coherence; by isolating and analyzing these networks, we are able to comment on longstanding literary theories. The second approach proposes a new set of discourse relations that are specific to narrative. By focusing on certain key aspects, such as agentive characters, goals, plans, beliefs, and time, these relations represent a theory-of-mind interpretation of a text. We show that these discourse relations are expressive, formal, robust, and through the use of a software system, amenable to corpus collection projects through the use of trained annotators. We have procured and released a collection of over 100 encodings, covering a set of fables as well as longer texts including literary fiction and epic poetry. We are able to inferentially find similarities and analogies between encoded stories based on the proposed relations, and an evaluation of this technique shows that human raters prefer such a measure of similarity to a more traditional one based on the semantic distances between story propositions.
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TL;DR: The authors found that narrative discourse helped resolve conflict, influence corporate decisions, and unify the group by collectively constructing stochastic narratives, which helped resolve conflicts, influence decisions and resolve conflicts.
Abstract: An analysis of the language used by a management team suggests that narrative discourse helped resolve conflict, influence corporate decisions, and unify the group. By collectively constructing sto...
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TL;DR: The authors investigated the rhetorical and organisational effects that changes in the non-linguistic business relationship context have on negotiation discourse using six authentic, audio-recorded British negotiations, divided into two categories, New Relationship Negotiations (NRNs) and Old Relationship Negotiation (ORNs).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used epistemological move analysis and pragmatic discourse analysis to understand how students cooperatively constitute a specific view of climate change by using six different epistemology moves used by the students.
Abstract: Many authors have claimed that participatory perspectives should be a significant feature of environmental and sustainability education (ESE). This change in ESE practice implies a relocation of the process of environmental knowledge constitution from ‘before’ to ‘in’ the educational event. The aim of this paper is to clarify both the processes of knowledge constitution and the content of the constituted knowledge within participatory ESE practices. Two methods based on John Dewey’s transactional perspective are used in the study: epistemological move analysis and pragmatic discourse analysis. The empirical material consists of video-recorded student discussions about climate change in the setting of a Swedish upper secondary school with a pronounced sustainability approach. In the analyses, six different epistemological moves used by the students are identified. The analyses show how students cooperatively constitute a specific view of climate change by using these moves. A main conclusion of this study ...
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