Sentence examples for discourse sample from inspiring English sources

As a result, orientational, ontological and structural metaphors were properly created, which constituted further basis for the interpretation of the discourse sample.

Each separate discourse sample is a part of the same critical discussion and, as such, it is intertextually linked with other discourse samples surrounding the same speech event.

Halliday's system of transitivity, which is used by individuals to describe 'what is going on' in a particular discourse sample and which seems to play an important role in power configurations, may be represented by choosing material processes (action, event or transaction), relational processes, and so on, creating various 'issues of representation'.

Rather than discussing the overarching ideological systems that supersede the other levels of analysis or the diachronic historical processes and manifestations of ideology that have informed the lexicogrammatical choices made by various individuals, each discourse sample needs to be analysed within the immediate contextual parameters (Halliday 2002).

Because the score for each discourse sample was based on a different maximum, genre features were converted to proportions so they could be compared across tasks.

For vocabulary, both number of words and number of different words in each discourse sample were calculated, with no difference between groups for either measure (Fs < 1).

A Pragma-Functional approach, combining Systemic Functional Linguistics and Pragma-Dialectics is applied to a set of data across various genres and registers, investigating salient patterns in the discourse samples, produced by various representatives of relevant speech communities.

All three discourse samples share a common theme, namely the future or state of New Caledonia, and are part of an overarching research project, comprising data from 110 responses to an online questionnaire, various excerpts from downloaded texts and interviews with Kanak indigenous people, conducted during a field trip in September 2015.

This paper investigates how power and ideology are construed through the transitivity patterns in the discourse samples, since the verbal processes or other linguistic options that are selected by both dominant and dominated interactants may be of political or ideological significance.

The target linguistic features (vocabulary, morphology, and syntax) were identified in academic discourse samples (described below) using Computerized Language Analysis (MacWhinney, 2000).

The finding that bilingual children demonstrated equivalent control over vocabulary as compared to monolinguals in the discourse samples in spite of poorer performance on the standardized test is different from that reported by Yan and Nicoladis (2009).