Discourse coherence and theory of relevance: Stumbling blocks in search of a unified theory

Giora, Rachel

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(95)00065-8

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“…Based on the notion that there is a conceptual connection between words and their adjacent text (Giora, 1996), the semantic orientation towards a word within a sentence is calculated by measuring the distance (in words) between a term and a pre-defined list of words known to have positive or negative connotations (Scharl et al, 2003). An initial set of about 3,500 sentiment words was taken from the tagged dictionary of the General Inquirer project (Stone, 1997).…”

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Web content mining for comparing corporate and third‐party online reporting: a case study on solid waste management

2006

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This study investigates the coverage of solid waste management on 1,142 websites maintained by companies, news media, and non-governmental organizations to validate an automated approach to content and language analysis. First, a frequency analysis of waste management terms is used to shed light on the breadth and depth of their environmental discourses, revealing that corporate and media attention to waste management is small compared to that of non-governmental organizations. Second, an investigation of their attitudes toward waste management suggests that companies avoid negative information in environmental communication, unlike news media or nongovernmental organizations. Ultimately, an automated tool for ontology building is employed to gain insights into companies' shared understanding of waste management. The ontology obtained indicates that companies conceptualize waste management as a business processes rather than framing it from an ecological perspective, which is in line with findings form previous research.

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Web content mining for comparing corporate and third‐party online reporting: a case study on solid waste management

2006

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“…Other group of researchers looked into the use and functions of DPs in written texts. For instance, Giora (1997Giora ( , 1998 and Tan-de Ramos (2010) believe that DPs play a major role in achieving coherence in written texts especially in academic papers. Some proponents claim that DPs give cues in leading the reader into the writer's meaning with minimum cognitive processing (Blakemore, 1987(Blakemore, , 1992(Blakemore, , 2002Blass, 1990;Iten, 1998;Wilson & Sperber, 1993in Tan-de Ramos, 2010.…”

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A Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Filipino Computer Mediated Communication

Palacio

Gustilo

2016

GEMA

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As the English language continues to evolve through time, many of its structures and functions changed, which made it even realizable that the smallest unit in a discourse can play a crucial role in communication. Hence, this present study is an attempt to investigate the phenomenon and further delve into the discourse-pragmatic functions of discourse particles (DPs) in digital genres, particularly on Facebook, since DPs are commonly used by Filipino youths when posting and commenting online. Thirty tertiary-level students from different universities in Metro Manila, Philippines, were selected to participate in the present study. Using both qualitative and quasi-quantitative methods, results revealed a surprising number and interesting types of combined English and Filipino Relational DPs having several micro functions. Generally, they serve as a device that can let the interlocutors convey their emotions, relationships, and attitudes towards the receiver of their message. Discourse particles have crucial and prominent implications in the way Filipinos, particularly the youth, express their message, gain understanding of the received message, and establish speakerreceiver relationships and attitude on Facebook.

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“…Based on the discourse topic theory (Asher, 1994), coherence theory (Giora, 1997), and Monroy-Casas's (2008) guidelines, the topic sentence quality was divided into five ranks (LIU, 2012), roughly as follows:…”

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Private Topic or Public One: On Topic Sentence Quality

Dong-hong¹

2015

SUET

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Topic effect on L2 writing has long been an issue of controversy. This study was carried out to investigate the influence of topic type on the quality of topic sentence. The participants, 150 college students at three different proficiency levels, were asked to write both on a private topic and a public topic. The results show that the participants on the whole wrote better on the public topic, and their proficiencies can be differentiated by the quality of their topic sentences. The public topic was conducive to the production of complete English discourse structures, as well as the generation of informative and predictive topic sentences. Moreover, the results also reveal the dynamic nature of contrastive rhetoric.

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Discourse coherence and theory of relevance: Stumbling blocks in search of a unified theory

Abstract: Contrary to Sperber and Wilson (1986), I argue that relevance cannot be the only principle that governs human communication. It can by no means replace current accounts of discourse coherence (e.g

Cited by 92 publications

References 43 publications

Web content mining for comparing corporate and third‐party online reporting: a case study on solid waste management

Web content mining for comparing corporate and third‐party online reporting: a case study on solid waste management

A Pragmatic Analysis of Discourse Particles in Filipino Computer Mediated Communication

Private Topic or Public One: On Topic Sentence Quality

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