Hyperconcept CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY Reconstruction in English, German and Ukrainian Texts of Religious Popular Discourse

Discourse Segmentation of German Texts

This paper addresses the problem of segmenting German texts into minimal discourse units, as they are needed, for example, in RST-based discourse parsing. We discuss relevant variants of the problem, introduce the design of our annotation guidelines, and provide the results of an extensive interannotator agreement study of the corpus. Afterwards, we report on our experiments with three automati...

skopos theory and translating strategies of csis in translaed literary texts from english into persian

abstract translation has become a cultural act which plays a significant role in human life. with the emergence of functional translation theories, and skopos theory in particular, translation has been considered as a purposeful, interpersonal and intercultural activity which is produced for particular recipients and directed by a specific purpose. this purpose determines the translatio...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts

Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A definition of elementary discourse segments in German is provided by adapting widely used segmentation principles for English minimal units, while considering punctuation, morphology, sytax, and aspects of the logical document st...

Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English

In his article "Indirect Discourse in German, Russian, and English" Henry Whittlesey Schroeder analyzes the different tenses of indirect discourse in these three languages. Indirect discourse in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century adopts a different time in English, German and Russian. English indirect discourse reports in the preterit; German indirect discourse hovers in the subjunctiv...