Discourse markers have been widely studied in various discourses such as political discourse, legal, media and even daily conversation. However, there is still a lack of discourse research humor studies. This study was projected to identify the linguistic aspects genre utterances stand-up comedy performed by Trevor Noah one most influential comedians. In addition, those aspect markers. The data...

Discourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key elements in guiding the inferences of the statements in natural language. Through a rule-based approach for the automatic identification, classification and annotation of the discourse markers in a multilingual parall...

This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called CENTERING, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese so that it can be used in computational systems for machine translation or language understanding, and (3) to provide some insights on the effect of syntactic factors in Japanese on discourse interpretation. We argue that w...

The macro-target of discourse interpretation for computational purposes is the automatic detection of events in a text and their ordering in a temporal scale. Asher and Lascarides’ (2003) ideas on the semantics-pragmatics interface between the lexical and discourse level along with the logic mechanism for inferring rhetorical structure (often nonmonotonically) proposes an interesting way of ach...

To get good understanding of prosody in continuous speech of Standard Chinese, we have collected large amount of speech in paragraph. 18 read discourse each contains 300-500 syllables are used as reading texts, which cover main discourse We are going effort on linguistic annotation. In This paper we report works reported as follows: One male speaker's 10,000 syllables duration in discourse; the...

• ABSTRACT: In standard FG (DIK, 1997) grammatical functions are assigned directly to the underlying representation in a more or less across the board fashion, only taking into consideration the language dependent semantic function hierarchy. This approach bypasses a number of constraints on subject assignment that may be gathered from typological data, and observed from the actual behaviour of...

this paper closely examines the persian new year's opening prayer as a literary text. regarding different communicative models, including the jacobson model, it shows that these models have never considered a place for religious communicative discourse. this paper endeavors to be a threshold for religious discourse, especially prayers. in doing so, it, first of all deals with the backgroun...

1. Introduction This paper argues that some parts of a lecture discourse that are commonly disregarded fulfill their own important functions with regard to a subject or purpose of an informative discourse. The ultimate purpose of an informative discourse is to communicate information effectively. There are two general methods to convey information effectively: The first method is to use scienti...