These rules spell out the overall assumption that discourse is coherent and that this coherence can be further elaborated on by proposing a set of regularities.
We suggested that the patterning across Experiments 1 3 can be interpreted as indicating that there are in fact conflicting pressures on the interpretation of pronouns in Chinese, as KR have proposed for English, and that a natural subject antecedent bias interacts with and sometimes competes with the force of discourse structure and Coherence Relations present in Chinese.
This vision, he suggested, passed among cultures and languages and from religious to secular discourse without losing its coherence or power to jolt the downtrodden to rise up.
Although aware that there are many aspects of a discourse that contribute to coherence, as pointed out by Foltz et al.
The notion that top down effects may take time is consistent with research on establishing coherence in discourse comprehension at the local level (i.e., how the current narrative constituent fits in with the immediate context) versus the global level (i.e., how the current narrative constituent fits in with the larger story context).
The sermon was described as having "...no coherence in his discourse".
This article presents an analysis of the acquisition order of coherence relations between discourse segments.
Moreover, variables related to adoption communication should also be analysed qualitatively, for example in terms of physical and emotional availability to talk about the subject, emotional attunement and narrative coherence of the discourse.
The paper makes use of a series of sentence completion tasks, adapted from Kehler and Rohde (2013) for Chinese, to try to tease apart the often complex roles played by syntactic position, Coherence Relations, and discourse structure.
As shown in the literature on 'discourse networks' [1],[2],[35],[36], network analysis can be employed to study empirical aspects of political discourse like the shape, stability, and coherence of discourse or advocacy coalitions, cleavage lines in a policy domain, diversity of arguments, and the degree of polarization of a discourse.
Lewis, by contrast, wholly embraces the objectivity of modality and the coherence of our modal discourse.
