Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change (DiPVaC) is a biennial international conference series intended to further the quantitative analysis of variation and change at the level of discourse-pragmatics ...

Speech Act Theory, rooted in the seminal work of Austin and further developed by Searle, investigates how language is not only used to present information but also to perform actions. This framework ...

Dr. Taboada works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics. She has done research on discourse relations and sentiment analysis. Current work ...