In a meeting with the principal, he speaks derisively of "l'apprenant" ("the learning one") in lieu of "the pupil," and of "this whole stupefying new pedagogical discourse," meaning a gentler, more human mode of education than the one that Germain had been trained to deliver.
This is possible because of advances in computational linguistics (Jurafsky and Martin 2008; McCarthy and Boonthum-Denecke 2012) and statistical representations of world knowledge and discourse meaning, such as latent semantic analysis (Landauer et al. 2007).
She speculated that these differences between L2 speakers might be due to L1 influences, and specifically 'the fact that in Thai, a tone language, pitch functions to distinguish lexical rather than discourse meaning'.
Sentence (and discourse) meanings would be obtained by composing such functions appropriately, producing for any sentence a set of DRSs.
Discourse meanings will be identified by gradually and systematically reading and re-reading all the information obtained through the interviews.
Egao can be used to subtly critique the state, appropriating official language and then re-inscribing it in other discourses of meaning to, make "sophisticated critiques of the regime without encountering harsh repression" (Esarey and Xiao 2008, 752).
Hence, while we acknowledge the important insights of Chen (1986), Pu (2011), and others concerning the potential role that discourse structure and semantics may have in shaping the use and interpretation of pronouns, we argue, along with Yang et al. (1999, 2003), that the processing of pronouns also accesses syntactic information and not simply aspects of discourse structure and meaning.
Cohesive devices (Connor & Johns, 1990; Halliday & Hasan, 1967) are words or phrases that tie discourse together, signaling links in meaning across text.
This includes the use of a 'neutral' study title that does not use words such as 'palliative' that have loaded meaning within public discourse.
One reason for this could be the observed lack of a patient safety discourse in the telecare literature, meaning that relevant publications could be missed by traditional database searches due to not being indexed in such a way as to allow identification within the parameters of such a search [ 88].
Such socially constructed meaning systems, or discourses, are inbuilt and taken-for-granted in ways people talk.
