the present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin persian. to do so, 195 male and female native persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item discourse completion task (dct) to elicit the speech act of offer. thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

We are interested in how individuals and communities develop opinions as they design and use new mobile, public-sphere technologies. We situate our work among new considerations of ethnography, mobile technologies and rhetoric and describe the design and pilot installation of a new technology called TexTales designed to support mobile public discourse. Mobility in the end may supply the means b...

In the light of this interest, I designed "Rabbi", a conversational storytelling system that simulates a rabbi with a repertoire of Hasidic stories to offer as indirect counsel. It approaches narrative through a psycho-social theory of discourse which looks not only at the linguistic structures of the text but also at the socio-cultural context in which the contract between teller and listener ...

We propose a general approach for performing event coreference and for constructing complex event representations, such as those required for information extraction tasks. Our approach is based on a representation which allows a tight coupling between world or conceptual modelling and discourse modelling. The representation and the coreference mechanism are fully implemented within the LaSIE in...

BACKGROUND For the diagnosis of thyroid disease, measurement of "free hormone" is generally accepted as an appropriate measure. However, valid assays measuring the free fraction of thyroxine (FT4) ideally must perform without bias, despite large variations in the concentrations and affinities of serum T4-binding proteins in the population. Several approaches have been taken to overcome such bia...

Accessibility constraints When dealing with anaphora resolution, anaphoric expressions are often considered to have access to a restricted set of discourse referents. The choice of the relevant discourse referent inside this set may depends on various kinds of information (morphosyntactic features, semantic features, salience. . . ). But theories that give a dynamic interpretation of language a...

This study investigated the utilization of intertextuality in the fourth edition of the Interchange book series for English as Foreign Language (EFL) Learners using Fairclough’s (1992) framework. Ten texts were randomly chosen among the reading passages of the Interchange book series and later analyzed regarding intertextuality kinds and methods of reporting. Findings indicated that two types o...