Discourse Organization

2018 ◽  
pp. 455-470
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Organization

scholarly journals Discourse markers in non-native EFL teacher talk

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Vickov ◽  
Eva Jakupčević
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

The present study aims to investigate the use of discourse markers (DMs) in non-native (Croatian) EFL teachers´ talk with primary and secondary school students. The study concentrates on the occurrences and frequencies of DMs, but it also provides an account of the function distribution of the three most frequently used DMs (ok, so, and). The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the recorded transcriptions reveal that the teachers use a variety of DMs, almost exclusively the ones typical of classroom management and classroom discourse organization, with no significant differences in the patterns of DM use with the primary and secondary school students. The DMs fulfill a number of structural and interpersonal functions mainly aimed at providing coherent and stimulating classroom discourse. The findings of this study might contribute to raising awareness of the diversified functions of DMs, which could facilitate non-native EFL teachers´ overall lesson organization and structuring of particular teaching segments.

Creating versatility in Thai demonstratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoichi Iwasaki ◽  
Parada Dechapratumwan
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Joint Attention ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Position Analysis ◽  
Discourse Organization

Abstract Beyond their basic function to index exophoric and endophoric referents, Thai demonstratives have a host of pragmatic functions to encode concerns regarding discourse organization, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Based on a detailed analysis of demonstratives used in conversation, we attempt to uncover the pattern of grammaticalization for this class of words in Thai, and to propose a mechanism that allows them to develop multiple functions. Since demonstratives are indexical signs and are qualitatively distinct from content words, we must view the grammaticalization process of demonstratives differently from that of content words. In this paper, we use the model of the joint attention triangle based on Diessel’s earlier work and the functional utterance frame based on the “attractor position” analysis for grammaticalization of nouns and verbs advanced by Bisang (1996) to analyze how exactly demonstratives come to acquire pragmatic functions.

The Haredi Scholar-Society and the Military Draft in Israel

2021 ◽  
pp. 626-637
Author(s):  
Nissim Leon
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Image ◽  
The State ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Critical View ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Cultural Structure

This chapter examines the phenomenon of deferments of army enlistment in Israel of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men studying in yeshivas. The author claims that counter-nationalist argument enables us to understand the progress that the haredi scholar-society has made from a sectorial entity that kept itself removed from the nation-state, and viewed the state as an undesired political fact, to an entity that maintains its own counter-nationalism. This social cultural religious entity regards itself as a symbiotic or active partner in the national endeavor, specifically through the insular haredi ethos. The author employs the term counter-nationalism to describe an approach that takes a critical view of nationalism, but has in effect adapted it to the structure of the discourse, organization, and aims of the hegemonic national ideology. This perspective raises the possibility that the ultra-Orthodox are beginning to view themselves as maintaining a complementary partnership with the Israeli culture, and to a considerable extent have even constructed a similar cultural structure, a sort of mirror-image of the militaristic one. Moreover, this study even suggests that the haredi mainstream seeks recognition for itself as the spiritual elite troops of the State of Israel.

Connecteurs et mouvements rythmiques (Catulle, c. 64)

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Plantade
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Discourse Organization

SummaryThis paper is dealing with particles such as at, autem, nain, sed. uero. operating in poetical context. These words have been previously described by Kroon 1995 in terms of ‘functional grammar’, so we use her work as a framework for our own insight in Catullus’poem, focusing on the rhythmical moves that particles contribute to provide. Often accounted as clitics, our particles may in fact be stressed by a discourse emphasis. Kroon’s description proves to be sound, even in poetical context, but, according to us, remains, somehow, too abstract, inasmuch as it does not explain the oral dimension of discourse organization.

LEFT DISLOCATION IN NEAR-NATIVE FRENCH

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Left Dislocation ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Syntactic Properties ◽  
Discourse Interface

The present study is concerned with the upper limits of SLA—specifically, mastery of the syntax-discourse interface in successful endstate learners of second-language (L2) French (near-native speakers). Left dislocation (LD) is a syntactic means of structuring spoken French discourse by marking topic. Its use requires speakers to coordinate syntactic and pragmatic or discursive knowledge, an interface at which L2 learners have been shown to encounter difficulties (e.g., Sorace, 1993; Sorace & Filiaci, 2006). The data come from (a) an 8.5-hr corpus that consists of recordings of 10 dyadic conversations between near-native and native speakers of French and (b) two contextualized paper and audio tasks that tested intuitions and preferences regarding LD. Analyses of the near-native speakers’ production of LDs, the syntactic properties of their LDs, and their use of LDs to promote different types of discourse referents to topic status suggest that their mastery of this aspect of discourse organization converges on that of native speakers.

Acts and the relationship between discourse and grammar

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Hannay ◽  
Caroline Kroon
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Extent ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Intonation Units ◽  
The Status ◽  
Discourse Grammar ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
The Relationship

In modelling the discourse–grammar interface, a central question concerns the status of discourse act as the minimal unit of discourse organization and its relation to units of grammatical structure. This paper seeks to clarify the notion of act by defining it as a strategic rather than a conceptual unit, and by setting out a classification of strategic acts. Illustration is then offered for the position that discourse acts are to a very considerable extent realized in English by intonation units and punctuation units. This is done by considering how punctuational variation and cases of intonation/syntax mismatch can be explained in terms of the specific discourse contribution of the units concerned. Although the correlation between discourse acts and intonation/punctuation units remains problematic, in that there may not be a 1 : 1 correspondence, it is still attractive — at least for English — to see the linguistic correlate of acts in intonation and punctuation units rather than in syntactic structures. The paper finishes by considering the implications for the formalizing of relations between discourse, semantics and syntax in Functional Discourse Grammar.

Semantic agents, syntactic subjects, and discourse topics

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beck
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Surface Form ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Discourse Organization

The Salishan language Lushootseed has been claimed to lack both syntactic subjects and morphosyntactically transitive clauses, a problematic stance from a universalist/typological point of view. This paper offers evidence both for the syntactic role of subject in Lushootseed and the existence of transitive clauses, and examines the sentence- and discourse-level properties of Lushootseed subjects that make them essential for the grounding of events and discourse in both space and time. Their centrality to the discourse-organization of the language, and hence their recoverability, allows their frequent — and, in transitive clauses, obligatory — elision from the surface form of sentences.

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