One of the stylistic features of Hafez’s sonnets is the repetition of a part of the meaning of the first line in the second line. His knowledge of the rhetorical and semantic relations of vocabularies enabled him to repeat the meaning with the least verbal repetition. One of the ways that has helped him to achieve this goal is replicating the concepts in two parts of the couplet based on rhetor...

This article describes an implementation of a basic multiprocessor system that exhibits replication and differentiation abilities on the POEtic tissue, a programmable hardware designed for bio-inspired applications [1, 2] . As for a living organism, whose existence starts with only one cell that first divides, our system begins with only one totipotent processor, able to implement any of the ce...

This study identified the use of evaluative ‘that’ stance embedded in rhetorical move structures applied linguistics research articles discussion sections written English and published international Thai journals. The aimed to investigate uses for observing practices both data was gathered from 80 articles. moves were analyzed. Occurrences counted within move-step. results revealed that journal...

We prove that the classic 1994 Taito video game, known as Puzzle Bobble or Bust-a-Move, is NP-complete. Our proof applies to the perfect-information version where the bubble sequence is known in advance, and it uses just three bubble colors. “A girl runs up with somethin’ to prove. So don’t just stand there. Bust a move!” — Young MC [YDD89]

The change to digital writing amounts to a reconfiguration which affects the very nature of knowledge. There is a scientific and operational stake in the study of the characteristics inherent to this renewed form of writing, particularly for the design of systems, the analysis of practices and the teaching of digital writing. This paper contributes to such purpose with a theoretical study based...

In this paper we consider sentences that contain Multiple In-text References (MIR) and their position in the rhetorical structure of articles. We carry out the analysis of MIR in a large scale dataset of about 80,000 research articles published by the Public Library of Science in 7 journals. We analyze two major characteristics of MIR: their positions in the IMRaD structure of articles, and the...

This paper examines hedging as a rhetorical resource employed by fifth year (DIPES II) students of the Higher Teacher Training College Maroua in Cameroon to show politeness, respect, humility and tentativeness presenting their arguments or stating facts subjective opinions. A specialized corpus 46.368 tokens was used hedges were retrieved using AntConc 3.4.4. Data analyzed both quantitatively q...

In this paper, we analyze citation contexts and characterize the different sections of scientific articles in terms of the verbs that appear in citation contexts. We have performed Factorial Correspondence Analysis (CA) using the four sections of the IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion) structure as categories. Our dataset contains about 80,000 research articles published in th...

One problem that every presenter faces when delivering a public discourse is how to hold the listeners’ attentions or to keep them involved. Therefore, many studies in conversation analysis work on this issue and suggest qualitatively constructions that can effectively lead to audience’s applause. To investigate these proposals quantitatively, in this study we analyze the transcripts of 2,135 T...

The generalised, automated reconstruction of the reasoning structures underlying persuasive communication is an enormously challenging task. While this work in argument mining is increasingly informed by the rich tradition of argumentation studies outside the computational field, the rhetorical perspective on argumentation is thus far largely ignored. To explore the application of rhetorical in...