Stylistic relevance of clichés in film dialogue

Dialectical Relevance in Persuasion Dialogue

How to model relevance in argumentation is an important problem for informal logic. Dialectical relcvance is determined by the use of an argument for some purpose in different types of dialogue, according to the ncw dialectic. A central type of dialogue is persuasion dialogue in which one participant uses rational argumentation to try to get the other participant to accept a designated proposit...

Investigating the stylistic relevance of adjective and verb simile markers

Similes are figures of speech in which the similarities as well as the differences between two or more semantically unrelated entities are expressed by means of a linguistic unit. This unit, also called marker, can either be a morpheme, a word or a phrase. Since similes rely on comparison, they occur in several languages of the world. Depending on the marker used and of the semantic or structur...

Gender-Distinguishing Features in Film Dialogue

Film scripts provide a means of examining generalized western social perceptions of accepted human behavior. In particular, we focus on how dialogue in films describes gender, identifying linguistic and structural differences in speech for men and women and in same and different-gendered pairs. Using the Cornell Movie-Dialogs Corpus (DanescuNiculescu-Mizil et al., 2012a), we identify significan...

Relevance, Points of View and Dialogue Modelling

A Dialogue of Two Books on Film and Philosophy Mehrdad Pourelm

The books Philosopher or Director and Film as Philosophy, in their own way, address the issues of film and philosophy and their relationship. From the outset, Philosopher or Director takes on an evaluative approach and tries to project this relationship as a false and constructed concept but Film as Philosophy, tries to approach this issue from different angles with an analytical approach and, ...