Browsing by Subject "Discourse analysis"
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An Exploration of How Female Characters are Portrayed in Levelled Texts
(2018-05)This documentary analysis examines how female characters are portrayed in levelled texts. Using the principals of both grounded theory and discourse analysis the texts of a sample of ten books from the PM series used in ... -
Arrah, like, you know: The dynamics of discourse marking in ICE-Ireland.
(2006)For over 400 years, dramatists, novelists, and other writers seeking to depict Irish characters have relied in part on words and phrases taken to be indexical of Irishness when representing the conversational functions ... -
Constructions of older people and their care during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)Beginning in March 2020, the Irish government implemented among Europe's most stringent and sustained lockdown measures to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Identified early on as a group at particularly high risk, older ... -
The discourse value of social signals at topic change moments
(2015)The dynamics of social interactions during human-human conversation have attracted the attention of many researchers aiming at improving the naturalness of automatic dialogue systems and creating socially aware machines. ... -
A discourse-analytic framework for conversational engagement in online discussion tasks, part 2: level of analytic depth
(2015)What do we mean by “engagement” in the context of online discussions? How do we recognise it? Is it quantifiable? Can we find ways of analysing it that might be of assistance to task designers, instructors, and students? This ... -
The International Linguistic Association 59th Annual Conference
(2014)L?election presidentielle francaise se deroule en deux scrutins. Le second tour oppose les deux candidats arrives en tete au premier. Entre les deux tours, depuis 1974, un debat televise oppose les deux finalistes sur le ... -
The myth of the 'five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland
(2018)This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive ... -
Time for laughter
(2014)Social signals are integral to conversational interaction and constitute a large part of the social dynamics of multiparty communication. Moreover, social signals may also have a function in discourse structure. We focus ...