The effect of discourse structuring devices on listener perceptions of coherence in non-native university teacher's spoken discourse

1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREA E. TYLER ◽  
ANN A. JEFFERIES ◽  
CATHERINE E. DAVIES
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Discourse

Modeling Spoken Discourse Comprehension Across the Adult Life Span

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Hale ◽  
Mitchell S. Sommers ◽  
Joel Myerson ◽  
Nancy Tye-Murray ◽  
Nathan Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Discourse Comprehension ◽  
Adult Life Span ◽  
Spoken Discourse

Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Christian Schoning ◽  
Jørn Helder ◽  
Chloé Diskin-Holdaway
Keyword(s):  
High Frequency ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Pragmatic Markers ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Self Repair ◽  
Interactional Discourse

Abstract The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’). A qualitative, form-based, discourse analytic approach is undertaken on over 40 minutes of naturally occurring Danish talk to argue that sådan qualifies as a DPM. In service of textual, subjective, and intersubjective macro-functions, sådan illustrates; exemplifies; marks hesitation; approximates a quantity; mitigates, hedges, or softens; and allows self-correction or self-repair. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for sådan’s place in the Danish DPM system and our understanding of DPMs across languages.

“Naturalness” in Scottish Dancing: an ethnolinguistic perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-188
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Alferov
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Spoken Discourse

The article explores various meanings of the concept “(un)natural” in written and spoken discourse devoted to traditional Scottish dancing. Analysing this concept alongside its co-occurent adjectives and adverbs in 18th–21st-century sources allows to better appreciate the semiotic complexity of the concept and its uses. The article highlights the seeming obviousness of what dancing naturally means to different kinds of stakeholders (dancers, teachers, spectators and researchers). It also emphasises the link between what is seen as natural dancing and people’s habits, both kinaesthetic, resulting from dance practice or the lack thereof, and stylistic or visual, grounded in spectators’ exposure to various manifestations of the Scottish dance repertoire.

DO L1-L2 DIFFERENCES IN DISCOURSE PROCESSING REFLECT PROCESSING DEMANDS OR DIFFICULTY OF FORM-FUNCTION MAPPING?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Eun-Kyung Lee ◽  
Scott Fraundorf
Keyword(s):  
Time Pressure ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Online Processing ◽  
Form Function ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Korean Learners ◽  
Function Mapping

Abstract We examined what causes L1-L2 differences in sensitivity to prominence cues in discourse processing. Participants listened to recorded stories in segment-by-segment fashion at their own pace. Each story established a pair of contrasting items, and one item from the pair was rementioned and manipulated to carry either a contrastive or presentational pitch accent. By directly comparing the current self-paced listening data to previously obtained experimenter-paced listening data, we tested whether reducing online-processing demands allows L2 learners to show a nativelike behavior, such that contrastive pitch accents facilitate later ruling out the salient alternative. However, reduced time pressure failed to lead even higher proficiency L1-Korean learners of English to reach a nativelike level, suggesting that L2 learners’ nonnativelike processing and representation of the prominence cue in spoken discourse processing can be due to the inherent difficulty of fully learning a complex form-function mapping rather than to online-processing demands.

Restrictiveness, exclusivity, adversativity, and mirativity

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Fang Wang ◽  
Mei-Chi Tsai ◽  
Wayne Schams ◽  
Chi-Ming Yang
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Mandarin Chinese ◽  
Discourse Marker ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Interactional Linguistics ◽  
English Only ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Turn Taking

Mandarin Chinese zhishi (similar to English ‘only’), comprised of the adverb zhi and the copula shi, can act as an adverb (ADV) or a discourse marker (DM). This study analyzes the role of zhishi in spoken discourse, based on the methodological and theoretical principles of interactional linguistics and conversation analysis. The corpus used in this study consists of three sets of data: 1) naturally-occurring daily conversations; 2) radio/TV interviews; and 3) TV panel discussions on current political affairs. As a whole, this study reveals that the notions of restrictiveness, exclusivity, and adversativity are closely associated with ADV zhishi and DM zhishi. In addition, the present data show that since zhishi is often used to express a ‘less than expected’ feeling, it can be used to indicate mirativity (i.e. language indicating that an utterance conveys the speaker’s surprise). The data also show that the distribution of zhishi as an adverb or discourse marker depends on turn taking systems and speech situations in spoken discourse. Specifically, the ADV zhishi tends to occur in radio/TV interviews and TV panel news discussions, while the DM zhishi occurs more often in casual conversations.

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