Finally, for the number of discourse elements (organization), the best model included only the intercept, suggesting that the number of discourse elements was initially 4.18 on average and it did not change over time.
This contrasts with other types of discourse elements, such as storytelling, that function through the subjective accumulation of meaning.
Engineering students should be able to identify, comprehend and accurately use those discourse elements which characterize scientific language.
Organization as measured by the number of discourse elements did not improve over time, which was in contrast to Hosogoshi et al. (2012) and Ohta (2008b).
This research design is aimed at investigating what discourse elements in CPDs contribute to generating positive effects and what factors other than a lack of English fluency could cause negative feedback in global business communication.
Such deficits might originate if past discourse elements do not sufficiently constrain the choice of current ones.
The first layer of encapsulation is the definition and use of a domain of discourse (elements in red in Figure 4).
We selected this narrative because it is fairly typical, illustrates a range of themes already discussed in this paper, and includes interesting discourse elements found across our data (see Rees et al 30 for a further narrative analysis).
There are various discourse elements in Helena's narrative that are worthy of consideration, including her pronominal and metaphoric talk and laughter, all of which shed light on how she makes sense of this DOPS experience.
These paradigms notwithstanding, Kristeva maintains that all discourse combines elements of both registers.
