Hashtags associate the message that contains them with a larger discourse.
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).
This finding suggests that analysis should not be achieved by treating each clause as an island of information but rather by taking the clause as part of the larger discourse.
In addition, the identical nature of discourse- and sentence-dependent N400 effects suggests that from the perspective of the word-elicited comprehension process indexed by the N400, the interpretive context delineated by a single unfolding sentence and a larger discourse is functionally identical.
The secondary Goal bias revealed by a more refined look at the results of Experiment 1 raises the question of whether Goal arguments always show increased occurrences of reference to pronouns in subsequent sentences simply in virtue of being Goals, or whether this increase occurs only in certain circumstances, as Goals are constructed into larger discourse structures.
Perhaps their lives will become part of a larger discourse on what it means to live peaceably in a fishbowl.
Just as breaking continuity alters the conversation, dropping an entire season on the Internet at once robs viewers of the energy to create a larger discourse about individual plot points.
However, anybody familiar with Ibn al-ʿArabi's thought and the larger discourse on cosmo-ontology and saintology in Islamic mysticism knows that there is yet another 'beyond' to these two realms of the intellect and spirit.
In larger discourse and dialogs, however, prosodic boundaries are not as informative as in single sentences [ 27, 28].
For example, although including non-traditional voices in the larger discourse could provide valuable insights from alternate points of view, some participants discussed the difficulties of engaging groups who had such different perspectives on issues such as health.Additionally issues of sensitivity may be created when bringing particular types of stakeholders to the table.
