An account of discourse connectives is given which focusses on their entailments. It covers uses of such connectives both to express discourse-internal situational relations and to express meta-level discourse relations. Representing the second of these involves explicitly introducing utterance mood into the logical form. The entailments of both situational and discourse uses of connectives are...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on a modern framework postulated by Kövecses (2015). The corpus of the study consisted of thirty-thousand words chosen as a textual sample to see which source conceptual domains are used and what generic/discursive attributes emerge ...

This paper presents a comparison of textual and visual syntax notation of Domain-Specific Language (DSL) programs on the example of DOMMLite DSL[3]. Starting from the definition of DOMMLite meta-model, the prototypes of both textual and graphical editors are implemented using tools of the Eclipse Modeling Project. Initial observations in favor and against both syntax notations are summarized an...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...

Mundane discourse abounds with utterances referring to other utterances. These meta-language utterances appear with surprising frequency in task-oriented dialogues, such as those arising in the context of a natural language interface to an operating system. This paper identifies some simpler types of dialogue-level meta language utterance and provides a computational framework to process such p...

abstract as literary texts have different layers, they are open to various political, social and cultural interpretations and readings. the main purpose of orators is to persuade their audience.thus, orators must be familiar with intra-textual factors (residing inside language) and situational factors (residing outside language), such as social, political, and cultural factors, in order to be a...

Biomedical information extraction is becoming an increasingly important application of Computational Linguistics research. We propose a method for analyzing full-text articles on protein interactions that takes a discourse-based approach to provide a means of ranking the biological validity of such interactions. Specifically, we use lexical chaining—strings of semantically related words—as an i...

With regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. The first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. The second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...