This essay takes as its starting point the resemblance between the historical practice of diplomatic representation and the rhetorical practice of metonymy. The early modern ambassador acted as a substitute abroad for the sovereign who sent him and metonymy describes a comparable replacement—in words—of one thing by another associated thing. Yet metonyms can all too easily become confused with ...

Thus, the content-determination and rhetorical planning functions are not integrated in AlethGen, but separated in two different sub-modules. On one hand, Ale thGen ' s Rhetorical planner produces surface rhetorical representation (not intermediate, as for example in RST [Mann & Thompson 88]). On the need for surface rhetorical representation, see [Coch & David 94]. On the other hand, Rhetorica...

Scholarly attention to Colossians in the recent past has included attention to the nature of the Colossian heresy,1 the hymn to Christ in Col. 1:15-20,2 and the literary style of Colossians generally.3 Although rhetorical studies of Colossians have appeared, comprehensive rhetorical studies which consider the letter’s invention, arrangement, and style have been few in number.4 The current artic...

We identify and illustrate five important kinds of Dialectical Examples, standard configurations of cases which enable an arguer to justify rhetorical assertions effectively by example. Our computer program generates Argument Contexts, collections of cases that instantiate Dialectical Examples from an on-line database of cases according to a user’s general specifications. The Argument Context g...

Persuasive negotiation occurs when autonomous agents exchange proposals that are backed up by rhetorical arguments (such as threats, rewards, or appeals). The role of such rhetorical arguments is to persuade the negotiation opponent to accept proposals more readily. To this end, this paper presents a rhetorical model of persuasion that defines the main types of rhetorical particles that are use...

Coherent texts are not just simple sequences of clauses and sentences, but rather complex artifacts that have highly elaborate rhetorical structure. This paper explores the extent to which well-formed rhetorical structures can be automatically derived by means of surface-form-based algorithms. These algorithms identify discourse usages of cue phrases and break sentences into clauses, hypothesiz...

This study aims to find the rhetorical structure of Move and Step which are often found in Speaking for Presentation class. Additionally, this research looks into typical pattern students’ presentations used a mixed-method strategy that incorporates qualitative quantitative data. The object is 30 video 4th-semester English education students from class at Bengkulu University. From study, it was...

Producing a well-organized and coherent text remains significant problem in EFL context writing. Cognitive demands low exposure to the language contribute this issue. Numerous researches are available tackle learners’ texts by using various ways such as Theme/Rheme thematic progression. Some studies attempt uncover texts’ coherence rhetorical moves structure. This study attempted novel method r...

From pragma-dialectical argumentation theory, model of critical discussion and triangle strategic maneuvering can deal with argumentative discourse normatively descriptively, which remains logical framework offers effective flexible space for maneuvering. Argumentative reconstruction under perspective provides the language approach pragmatic trace participants to further explore interactive pri...

This tiiesis addresses a difficult problem in text processing: crealing a System lo automalically dérive rhetorical structures o f text. Allhough thè rhelorical structure lias proven to be useful in many fields o f text processing sucli as text summarisation and information extraction, Systems that auiomalically generate rhetorical structures with high accuracy are difficult to find. This is bc...