Linearity as Metadiscourse in Murray Bail’s Fiction

Metadiscourse in Knowledge Building: A question about written or verbal metadiscourse

Non-linearity as the Metric Completion of Linearity

We summarize some recent results showing how the lambdacalculus may be obtained by considering the metric completion (with respect to a suitable notion of distance) of a space of affine lambda-terms, i.e., lambda-terms in which abstractions bind variables appearing at most once. This formalizes the intuitive idea that multiplicative additive linear logic is “dense” in full linear logic (in fact...

Non-linearity in radiocaesium soil to plant transfer: Fact or fiction?

The basis premise of many radiological assessments is the assumption that the transfer of many radionuclides from soil to herbage and hence animal derived food products is a positive linear relationship for a given set of ecological conditions. However, a number of authors have published results, which they conclude demonstrate non-linear transfer of radiocaesium to plants and animals with tran...

The OpenCourseWare Metadiscourse (OCWMD) Corpus

This study describes a new corpus of over 60,000 hand-annotated metadiscourse acts from 106 OpenCourseWare lectures, from two different disciplines: Physics and Economics. Metadiscourse is a set of linguistic expressions that signal different functions in the discourse. This type of language is hypothesised to be helpful in finding a structure in unstructured text, such as lectures discourse. A...

Expanding the metadiscourse concept in knowledge building .