PPT-Discourse Part IV:

Tactile Classifiers and Maps Chapter 432 Overview Tactile ASL is emerging as a variety of ASL that is used by fluent ASL signers who are blind This presentation describes the technique of signing on the listeners arms andor hand in order to make spatial relationships more clear. brPage 1br Conjugarea verbului discourse Present I discourse You discourse HeSheIt discourses We discourse You discourse They discourse Past I discoursed You discoursed HeSheIt discoursed We John M. Swales. jmswales@umich.edu. The Colonic Title. . THEME .  DEVELOPMENT. . TOPIC  COMMENT. . THEORY  APPLICATION. . AIM  METHOD. . GENERAL  SPECIFIC. SENSE  NONSENSE. Julia Hirschberg. CS 4705. Thanks to Dan Jurafsky, Diane Litman, Andy Kehler, Jim Martin . What makes a text or dialogue coherent? . “Consider, for example, the difference between passages (18.71) and (18.72). Almost certainly not. The reason is that these utterances, when juxtaposed, will not exhibit coherence. Do you have a discourse? Assume that you have collected an arbitrary set of well-formed and independently interpretable utterances, for instance, by randomly selecting one sentence from each of the previous chapters of this book.” . A very brief introduction to. DISCURSIVE METHODS. Conversation Analysis. Discourse Analysis. Critical Discourse Analysis. Why Language?. The ‘discursive turn’ driven by social constructionism. Discourse as a fundamental, centrally constituting, feature of the social world.. Key Definitions. discourse analysis – the study of how features of written/spoken texts illustrate or enact their context and purpose. discourse structure – the way texts are organised into coherent wholes as well as linguistic patterns within texts.. Discourse Markers. Chapter 4.3.6. Overview. This presentation gives a small introduction to the topic of discourse markers and a few examples in both ASL and English.. It also includes a few markers that are borrowed from ASL but used more commonly in TASL (or with deaf people who have very limited vision).. An Overview. Reflect on our class so far…. What is the most . important or most useful . thing you’ve learned about who you are as a . reader, as a writer, and as . astudent. ?. What kinds of connections can you make . AND . VOCABULARY. Bring. a . discourse. . dimention. . to. . teach. . vocabulary. Not . abandoning. . vocabulary. . teaching. , . instead. . offering. a . supplement. . to. . conventional. Discourse, genre and discourse type. Definitions of discourse. The literature provides . many different . definitions of “discourse” (see . Jaworski. and . Coupland. 1-37 for an overview). In reality they have more overlap than would appear at first sight.. Key Definitions. discourse analysis – the study of how features of written/spoken texts illustrate or enact their context and purpose. discourse structure – the way texts are organised into coherent wholes as well as linguistic patterns within texts.. “CDA [is]fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control when these are manifested in language. In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, and legitimized by language use.” (. Walter . Humes. University of Stirling. Four Challenges. Political. Philosophical. Pedagogical. Professional. Discourse Analysis. Where has the discourse come from?. Why has it come to prominence now?. Strict Father vs. Nurturant Parent. LM1. 27 April 2017. Aims and Scope. PD “concerned with formal/informal political contexts and political actors… with politicians, political institutions, governments, political media, and political supporters operating in political environments” (Wilson 2001: 398);. Workshop on Discourse Functions of Demonstratives University of Oslo 14 - 15 June 2018 Åshild Næss Anna Margetts Yvonne Treis Jozina Vander Klok 1 Small programme change : dinner tomorrow