The aim of this study is to provide a systematic account of structural discourse markers operating at a conversational macro-level in German Palliative Care interactions, focusing on their frequency, distribution, co-occurrence, and speaker-group-spe...
Discourse markers have been extensively studied in spoken languages from different perspectives, covering monolingual, contrastive, and translation studies. However, research on these items remains limited for signed languages, with only a handful of...
The discourse marker vamos is the first-person present indicative plural of the verb ir (“to go”) and acts as a guide throughout the discourse. We studied its use in the PRESEEA corpus of Granada, analyzing 54 interviews and rescuing 270 occurrences...
This study investigates reformulation in a substandard variety of Italian, italiano popolare, from the early 20th Century, focusing on a collection of letters and postcards from semi-literate Sicilian peasants during World War I. The analysis identif...
The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited us...
This paper discusses the structural realisation of contrastive focus in the Grassfields Bantu language Bamileke Mǝ̀dʉ́mbà, yet another language with grammatically optional focus fronting. We show that the realisation of con...
In this article—based on the fieldwork I conducted in Lisbon (Portugal) between 2018 and 2021, employing in-depth ethnography and self-ethnography—I describe the experience of the medicalization and moralization of beauty in Portuguese women aged 45–...
Education can serve the purpose of trying to mitigate catastrophes. In a school context, teachers can have a role in enacting an interconnection between critical thinking (CT) as a potentially useful tool and education for sustainable development (ES...
Kunbarlang shows considerable variation in the word order patterns of nominal expressions. This paper investigates these patterns, concentrating on the distribution of noun markers (articles) and on attributive modification. Based on examination of s...
Background: A narrative requires the integration and management of linguistic and cognitive skills. It has been observed that children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties in narrating stories. This research proposes an interv...
Voice cloning enables realistic fake speech in which a speaker’s identity is preserved while the spoken message is semantically altered. This paper asks whether such meaning-level manipulation leaves detectable traces in transcripts alone. To s...
The cognitive-constructionist approach to language has significantly gained prominence, with recent developments expanding its exploration into language change [...]
This study examines the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in nonnative English speech produced by Arab English speakers. Four DMs (and, but, so, y’know) are analysed based on two theoretical frameworks: Schiffrin’s (1987) frame...
While extensive research has documented the cognitive changes associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD), a relatively small portion of the empirical literature investigated the language abilities of individuals with PD. Recently, artificial inte...
This paper focuses on the analysis of a specialised American police discourse genre and is based on a corpus of 115 probable cause affidavits. A probable cause affidavit is a sworn statement written by American police officers to state that there is...
This work describes the cooptation/grammaticalization process developed by the expression no veas. The hypothesis it defends, endorsed by previous research, considers that in this process, this expression appears in different constructions, originall...
A major challenge in research on cognitive decline and dementia is the identification of at-risk populations in the preclinical phase. In this context, there is growing interest in language markers as early indicators of cognitive impairment. Objecti...
This paper presents empirical evidence to support the so-called syntactization of discourse, that is, the projection of relevant pragmatic features in the narrow syntax. In particular, it analyses deictic inversion in English, a construction which is...
Sharia and Law colleges in Saudi universities provide a distinctive educational setting in which classical Islamic jurisprudential discourse and contemporary statutory legal discourse coexist within the same curriculum. Despite this shared institutio...
This study, based on naturalistic discourse in Mano and on both morphosyntactic and prosodic characteristics, analyses the Mano constructions formed with the marker lɛ́, including the identifying construction, referent introduction, focus,...
Silence, self-interruptions, or hesitations in spontaneous speech are often interpreted as markers of oral disfluency as they lead to difficulties in delivering a message and in processing it. The main purpose of this study is to examine how such mar...
This study examines lexical and syntactic convergence between Dai Lue and Chinese in the multilingual environment of Sipsongpanna, employing an apparent-time approach across three generational cohorts (N = 90, balanced gender). Through mixed-methods...
Structural priming has been described as a measure of association between constructions. Here, we apply priming as a diagnostic to assess the status of the Chilean second-person singular (2sg) voseo, which exists in variation with the more standard t...
In this article, I argue that persisting racial constructs in Spain affect conceptions of national belonging and continue to shape and permeate contemporary discriminations. I begin by describing several recent political events that demonstrate the u...
As the iconic concept of the I Ching, the “image” (xiang 象) is the linchpin for understanding its philosophical ideas. In its reception by scholars in Europe and North America, many have explored the “image” from religi...
The rapid advancement of automated essay scoring (AES) has been constrained by a representation bottleneck, where monolithic models collapse diverse facets of writing constructs into a single, uninterpretable signal, undermining the pedagogical value...
Second language (L2) writing, particularly in demanding areas like argumentative discourse, requires learners to effectively manage interpersonal resources such as stance and modality. Despite the centrality of stance in academic literacy, its develo...
Stance detection aims to identify whether a text expresses a favorable, opposing, or neutral attitude toward a given target and has become increasingly important for analyzing public discourse on social media. Existing approaches, ranging from superv...