Multifunctionality and the Realization Problem in Modelling Discourse Production

1995 ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Susanna Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Realization Problem ◽  
Discourse Production

Efficiency in discourse processing: Does morphosyntax adapt to accommodate new referents?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Schnell ◽  
Nils Norman Schiborr ◽  
Geoffrey Haig
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Cognitive Challenge ◽  
Direct Objects

Abstract The introduction of new referents into discourse has traditionally been regarded as a major challenge to language processing, for which speakers deploy specific syntactic configurations, guided by the speaker’s assessment of the recipient’s state of mind (‘recipient design’). In this paper we probe these assumptions against discourse data from nine languages. We find little evidence for specialized syntactic configurations accommodating new referents; the only notable exception is the association of new reference with direct objects, suggests that linking new referents to already established discourse frames through a transitive construction is preferable to isolating them in an intransitive one. Where specific intransitive predicates are indeed found to host new referents, we find this to be motivated primarily by semantic considerations. Contrary to long-held assumptions, we conclude that the cognitive challenge of referent introduction is only weakly reflected in morphosyntax; instead, discourse production is most efficient when new referents are integrated seamlessly with content-driven demands of the narration.

scholarly journals A framework for the solution of the generalized realization problem

2007 ◽  
Vol 425 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 634-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. Mayo ◽  
A.C. Antoulas
Keyword(s):  
Realization Problem

The Dutch Main Concept Analysis: Translation and Establishment of Normative Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Yana Criel ◽  
Marie Deleu ◽  
Evelien De Groote ◽  
Annelies Bockstael ◽  
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Transfer ◽  
Normative Data ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Intrarater Reliability ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
Outcome Information ◽  
And Gender

Purpose The main concept analysis (MCA; Kong, 2009) quantifies the effectiveness and efficiency of information transfer during verbal discourse by means of four sets of sequential pictorial stimuli. This test was originally developed for a Cantonese-speaking population. The main goals of this study were (a) to translate and adapt the MCA to Dutch; (b) to establish normative data for healthy native Dutch-speaking adults; (c) to assess the effect of age, education level, and gender on MCA outcome; and (d) to establish inter- and intrarater reliability of the Dutch MCA. Method Language samples were collected from 60 healthy native Dutch speakers, equally recruited in different age (20–39 years, 40–59 years, 60–79 years) and education (middle and highly educated) categories through administration of the MCA. Utterances produced by at least 75% of the participants were included as a main concept in the Dutch MCA. Subsequently, age-specific normative data were established for each of the MCA parameters. Finally, an ICC was calculated in order to verify inter- and intrarater reliability of the Dutch MCA. Results The translated MCA consisted of 19 main concepts. Age-specific normative data were obtained. Both age and education level had a significant effect on MCA outcome. Information transfer in elderly was both less effectively and efficiently compared to young- and middle-aged adults. In addition, highly educated participants transferred information less efficiently compared to middle educated participants. Based on inter- and intrarater reliability measures, the Dutch MCA proved to be a reliable measuring instrument. Conclusions The MCA was translated to Dutch, and age-specific normative data were established for a healthy, Dutch-speaking population. The Dutch MCA is a reliable tool for eliciting and quantifying discourse production. Validation of the test for people with aphasia is necessary in order for the test to be useful in a clinical practice.

COORDINATING LANGUAGE GENERATION AND MOTOR CONTROL IN DISCOURSE PRODUCTION VIA HANDWRITING

1989 ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH S. BROWN ◽  
THOMAS H. CARR ◽  
TRACY L. BROWN ◽  
JANET L. MCDONALD ◽  
ALKISTIS CHARALAMBOUS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Control ◽  
Language Generation ◽  
Discourse Production

scholarly journals Contestation of Discourse on Alcoholism among Native Americans in Joy Harjo’s The Reckoning (2002)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Shofi Mahmudah Budi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Joy Harjo ◽  
Discourse Production ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Society

This study aims at revealing how the discursive practices and the discourse on alcoholism in the Native Americans is produced and contested in a short story entitled The Reckoning by Joy Harjo. The problem in this study is approached by Foucauldian concept of discourse production procedure. The method applied here is the Foucauldian discourse analysis by examining the problem through the process of formation including external and internal exclusion. Central to the analysis is that alcoholism is produced as taboo through the mother character which limits the general understanding about alcoholism; hence this discourse is possible to produce by the subject whose credentials can validate the truth. This discourse is also affirmed by the contextual prohibition which authoritatively can state the truth about alcoholism. This is further contested in the current society of how being an alcoholic would be considered as a non-native American way of life. The result indicates that alcoholism among Native American society becomes the discourse within which constraints produce considerable barriers to expose or address to this topic

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