Sentence examples for discourse segments from inspiring English sources
This article presents an analysis of the acquisition order of coherence relations between discourse segments.
Discourse segments may be a text or text phase or paragraph.
The study shows that dan may be used as a discourse marker to indicate one of five potential relationships between the two discourse segments it conjoins.
Thus various types of rhetorical or coherence relations (between clauses or larger discourse segments) have been proposed in the literature, e.g., by Hobbs (1979), Grosz & Sidner (1986), and Mann & Thompson (1988).
The answer to that question could be a direct quotation from the item, a paraphrase, or a verbalization of what appeared to be implied in specific discourse segments in the item.
Here, the prediction error from situational changes marks a boundary between constituents, triggering the updating process (Radvansky & Zacks, 2014; Zacks, Speer, & Reynolds, 2009), as suggested by behavioral and/or neurocognitive measures aligned with participants' identification of boundaries between events and/or discourse segments (Magliano & Zacks, 2011; Zacks et al., 2001, 2009).
Secondly, the non-monotonic nature of the Event Calculus can be used to model the incremental construction of a temporal model with inferences which hold locally at a discourse segment sn but which can be undone at some later discourse unit sn+1.
Using discourse analysis, discussion transcript segments dealing with male nurses' gender or sexuality were examined for turn design, sequential organization, and procedural relevance.
Table 10 Excerpt 4: A segment of discourse from group E's discussion (lines 21 to 32) Turn of talk Student Discourse 21 E: What do you think was the cause of death?
Table 8 Excerpt 2: A segment of discourse from group F's discussion (lines 11 to 14) Turn of talk Student Discourse 11 L: How did the bubble get into the blood stream?
Table 9 Excerpt 3: A segment of discourse from group F's discussion (lines 15 to 20) Turn of talk Student Discourse 15 L: What if she was killed by intravenous injection then later dumped into the river?
