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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: This article analyzed texts produced in San Francisco's 1983 campaign against bilingual ballots in order to account for the initiative's broad appeal and found that rhetorical tropes and recurring themes shift the target of the campaign to aspects of political process of which a wide spectrum of Americans are suspicious, projecting fears onto outsiders and constructing a familiarly benevolent meaning for the initiatives.
Abstract: The anti-bilingual movement in the United States is a status movement, but a simple “status politics” analysis does not fully capture its dynamics. Such movements are neither homogeneous nor merely reflective of social structure, but express internal ambivalence and organize sociopolitical change through rhetorical processes. I analyze texts produced in San Francisco's 1983 campaign against bilingual ballots in order to account for the initiative's broad appeal. Rhetorical tropes and recurring themes shift the target of the campaign to aspects of political process of which a wide spectrum of Americans are suspicious, projecting fears onto outsiders and constructing a familiarly benevolent meaning for the initiative.[American politics, language policy, status movements, discourse analysis, ideology]
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29 Sep 1995TL;DR: The stolen letter task: understanding reference to individuals in a narrative and the listener and discourse comprehension are studied.
Abstract: 1. Speakers, listeners, and communication 2. The map task method 3. Identifying features in a landscape 4. Guiding the listener through the landscape 5. The stolen letter task: understanding reference to individuals in a narrative 6. Understanding narratives 7. The listener and discourse comprehension.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis of the social and cognitive processes connected to shared creative text composition was carried out using an analytic tool developed specifically for creative writing tasks, linking collaborative and discursive features to cognitive processes associated with writing (engagement and reflection).
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08 Jan 2002
TL;DR: Exploring the Language of Drama as discussed by the authors introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama and explores the language of plays using discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, as opposed to focusing on performance.
Abstract: Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters: * open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue * look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue * consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse * focus on the notion of speech as action. there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment.
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TL;DR: In this article, the complementary contribution of image (artwork) and verbiage (text panel) to the meaning-making process of multimodal or composite text is analyzed.
Abstract: The phenomenon of the multimodal or composite text is a challenge for discourse analysts, particularly those working with linguistic tools fashioned to account for verbal texts. Drawing on systemic functional semiotics, this article focuses on the interactive meanings of two student artworks presented in a Sydney exhibition called ArtExpress. It analyses the complementary contribution of image (artwork) and verbiage (text panel) to the meaning-making process. Drawing principally on APPRAISAL analysis as practised within Sydney School linguistics, the article proposes a richer account of evaluation in both image and verbiage than is currently available in analyses of separate modes. The article aims to contribute to the development of semiotic grammars adequate for an integrated account of multimodal texts at different institutional ‘moments’ in their (re)production.
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