Writing in the New York Times, Paul Krugman has called Mr Piketty's text "discourse-changing scholarship".
Buddhist sutras are rather didactic texts, discourses, or sermons, possibly deriving their name from the sense in which they carry the thread of the tradition of the Buddha's teachings.
Kintsch (1988) provided a useful framework as Construction-Integration (CI) model of text and discourse comprehension to investigate the influence of graph display and prior knowledge on graph comprehension.
It is an approach to meaning representation where pieces of text or discourse are viewed as instructions to update an existing context with new information, with an updated context as result.
To understand these higher and lower-information processing, cognitive psychologists concentrate on the text and discourse comprehension (see Graesser et al. 1997) because of the convenience of presenting context stimuli to reach the rationale behind the comprehension processes.
This focus of the special issue is in video-based learning, video-based learning has seen enormous growth during the last years and comparing with research on text and discourse analytics, the research on video analytics is still on an early stage.
The manuscript is well-written and nicely presented, with a good balance of descriptive text and discourse and practical illustration of package usage.
The reflective diaries are able to elicit written testimonies on the experiences of people, since for Ricoeur [ 36] "text is discourse fixed in writing" (p145), and have an apparent advantage over interviews.
If you look at one of the Gnostic texts, the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth, it's a dialogue between a teacher and a student.
Structuralism, in linguistics, any one of several schools of 20th-century linguistics committed to the structuralist principle that a language is a self-contained relational structure, the elements of which derive their existence and their value from their distribution and oppositions in texts or discourse.
This paper summarizes work over the past five years on the automated planning and generation of multisentence texts using discourse structure relations, placing it in context of ongoing efforts by computational linguists and linguists to understand the structure of discourse.
