Aspect as a Discourse Category in Tamil

Creating an Annotated Tamil Corpus as a Discourse Resource

We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil D...

Constitutive Features of the Russian Political Discourse in Ecolinguistic Aspect

The article offers a comparative description of typological mechanisms used in political communicative practice and methods of verbal explication of its axiological and symbolic constituents determining universal mental features of individual/collective consciousness. The research position based on a systemic multilevel analysis of the component structure of discourse facilitates the identifica...

Tense and Aspect Assignment in Narrative Discourse

We describe a method for assigning English tense and aspect in a system that realizes surface text for symbolically encoded narratives. Our testbed is an encoding interface in which propositions that are attached to a timeline must be realized from several temporal viewpoints. This involves a mapping from a semantic encoding of time to a set of tense/aspect permutations. The encoding tool reali...

Tense and Aspect in Sentence and Discourse

a critical discourse analysis on gender representation in the iranian english books 2, 3 and top notch 2a, 2b a critical discourse analysis perspective

هدف از انجام تحقیق حاضر، مطالعه و بررسی نقش زنان و مردان در دو مجموعه از کتابهای درسی انگلیسی در قالب تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی و همچنین، بررسی و آشکار ساختن اصول ایدوئولوژیکی مربوط به نقش زنان و مردان در این کتابها است. این دو مجموعه کتاب عبارتنداز: کتابهای انگلیسی سال دوم و سوم دبیرستانی ایران و کتابهای تاپ ناچ 2آ و 2ب. برای انجام این منظور، مدل تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف مورد استفاده قرار گرفته ...