Sentence examples for English discourse from inspiring English sources

The data were collected through a 24-item English Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to which 40 male and female EFL learners were asked to provide short responses.

Erman and Warren (2000) calculated that formulaic sequences of various classes constituted 58.6% of the spoken English discourse they analyzed and 52.3% of the written discourse.

Hovy then suggested using just as many relations as are required for determining the major aspects of English discourse structure, that is, approximately 70 relations, organized into a hierarchy of increasing specificity.

English cricketing discourse is framed almost entirely with reference to this rivalry.

Specifically, it reveals the grammatical categories that occur unusually frequently or unusually infrequently in the English learners' discourse when compared with the language used by the native speakers of English in the same sample.

This contribution employs an integrated approach to the investigation of the form and function of the theme zone in English media discourse giving particular attention to the communicative genres of political interview and editorial.

Conducted from a register-perspective (Biber & Conrad, 2009), this exploratory and descriptive research is intended to fill in the gap in corpus linguistics studies on phraseology and register variation within written English pharmaceutical discourse.

Translated into English as Discourses on Architecture (1875), this work, containing information on the construction of iron skeletons enclosed by nonbearing masonry walls, especially influenced the late-19th-century architects of the Chicago school, particularly John W. Root.

English-only discourses are a rearview mirror perspective of our nation, one that fails to confront the reality of the present or consider the future of our country in the context of a globalized world.

The army would soon return in great numbers with the stated intention to "break Zulu power once and for all", going on to shape much of modern South Africa, including the dominance of English in public discourse.

The major compilation of Epictetus' teaching is the four-volume work standardly referred to in English as the Discourses; it was variously titled in antiquity.