When people read or listen to a discourse, they will try to make sense of it. To fully understand a discourse, it is essential not only to know the meaning of e
This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they
The last few decades have seen impressive improvements in several areas of Natural Language Processing. Nevertheless, getting a computer to make sense of the di
"Making sense of discourse analysis brings together the key systems of discourse analysis. The book overviews and explains communicative language theory, speech
This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior