Gail Stygall (I 994) Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamin Publishing. xii + 226 pp. ISBN 90 272 5038 3.

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-200
Author(s):  
Janet Ainsworth
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing ◽  
John Benjamin ◽  
Discursive Formation

Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation

Language ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Ellen L. Barton ◽  
Gail Stygall
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Discursive Formation

Influence of Dutch Gender on Discourse Processing in English: Evidence From Eyetracking

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Conklin ◽  
Ton Dijkstra ◽  
Walter Van Heuven
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing

Establishing global and local coherence in discourse processing: Evidence from fMRI

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul van den Broek ◽  
Ben Seipel ◽  
Virginia Clinton ◽  
Edward J. O'Brien ◽  
Philip Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Processing ◽  
Local Coherence ◽  
Global And Local

One Goy, Multiple Language Games

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Ophir ◽  
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Discursive Formation ◽  
Characteristic Features

This chapter analyzes the characteristic features of the goy as a specific type of other, in both its legal (halakhic) and homiletical (aggadic) manifestations, as well as the division of labor between these two genres of the rabbinic corpus. It reconstructs the goy as a figure and a discursive position, and examines the technology of separation associated with it in both legal (laws of idolatry; purity; pedigree; murder, theft, recovering lost items; etc.) and non-legal (embryology; eschatology; daily liturgy; homilies on the exodus and the Sinai covenant; etc.) domains. The chapter demonstrates the consolidation of the binary, total, individualized discursive formation of Jew-goy opposition, through each of these aspects, and traces the triadic structure in which the opposition is embedded in the aggadic discourse, with God serving as the mediating position between the two parties. Analyzing the different domains together exposes the depth and comprehensiveness of the new structure.

Paul and the Non-Ethnic Ethnē

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adi Ophir ◽  
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Discursive Formation

Chapter 5 singles out one author, the apostle Paul, who offers a novel understanding of the biblical goyim. The chapter goes against the scholarly consensus, according to which Paul simply borrowed his binary distinction between Jews and ethnē from a Jewish tradition. It shows that despite scattered cases in 1 and 2 Maccabees, in which goy is used to refer to indefinite groups of individuals, no such tradition existed. While these texts still preserve the political context of the biblical ethnē, Paul’s ethnē is totally individualized, stripped from any ethnic context. Thus, in Paul’s writing, one finds the first systematic use of a generalized, abstract category of the Jew’s Other. The chapter explains what could have led Paul to develop this discursive formation and discusses the implications. It also considers various ideas about Jews’ others in nascent Christianity and compares them to the rabbinic formation of the goy.

scholarly journals Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing

Cognition ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 104581
Author(s):  
Jet Hoek ◽  
Hannah Rohde ◽  
Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul ◽  
Ted J.M. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Relative Clauses ◽  
Discourse Processing

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.

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