Communicative Restrictions in Chinese Academic Discourse

Advertising as Communicative Discourse: An Analysis

The task of modern creativity in advertising is to find fresh, interestprovoking ways of conveying meaningful information realistically and on the reader‟s own terms. As Nilsen says, “in many ways, advertisers are today‟s pop culture poets. They value the power and the flexibility of the English language just as much as do their literary colleagues on college campuses and writing colonies.” 2 T...

Visualising Linguistic Evolution in Academic Discourse

The present paper describes procedures to visualise diachronic language changes in academic discourse to support analysis. These changes are reflected in the distribution of different lexico-grammatical features according to register. Findings about register differences are relevant for both linguistic applications (e.g., discourse analysis and translation studies) and NLP tasks (notably automa...

Chinese Discourse Relation Recognition

The challenging issues of discourse relation recognition in Chinese are addressed. Due to the lack of Chinese discourse corpora, we construct a moderate corpus with humanannotated discourse relations. Based on the corpus, a statistical classifier is proposed, and various features are explored in the experiments. The experimental results show that our method achieves an accuracy of 88.28% and an...

Necessities of Developing Diverse Cultural Potentials in Academic Discourse

The absolute hegemony of international code of (academic) communication has resulted in the development and spread of the discoursal voice of the culture form which historical English has emerged, and, as a consequence, any violation from the generic conventions and thinking patterns born out of such a discourse has resulted in the deprivation of non-native thinkers form active participation in...

Closing The Gap Between Discourse Structure And Communicative Intention