In previous work, we presented a preliminary study to identify paraphrases between technical and lay discourse types from medical corpora dedicated to the French language. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the same kinds of paraphrases as for French can be detected between English technical and lay discourse types and report the adaptation of our method from French to English. Starting...

The idea of contrast plays an important role in the analysis of information structure and discourse structure. In the literature on information structure, we encounter the concept of contrastive focus and of contrastive topic, and there is also the opinion that focus in general establishes a contrast. In the literature on discourse structure, it is commonly held that there is a discourse relati...

In Chinese, there are clear embodiments of gendered discourse pattern. Based on the concrete embodiments of gendered discourse pattern in Chinese, this paper will discuss about some specific examples. Then the reasons of forming the Chinese gendered discourse pattern will be illustrated. Lastly the paper will summarize the cognitive interpretation of Chinese gendered discourse pattern.

for valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. We are especially grateful to Richard Oehrle for his detailed comments which led to a number of significant improvements.

Apun is a form of wordplay in which aword suggests two or more meanings by exploiting polysemy, homonymy, or phonological similarity to another word, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. Though a recurrent and expected feature in many discourse types, puns stymie traditional approaches to computational lexical semantics because they violate their one-sense-percontext assumption. This ...

The paper [Tarski:Les fondements de la géométrie des corps,Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématiques, pp. 29–34, 1929] is in many ways remarkable. We address three historico-philosophical issues that force themselves upon the reader. First we argue that in this paper Tarski did not live up to his own methodological ideals, but displayed instead a much more pragmatic approach. Second we s...

Discourse comprises those phenomena that usually do not arise when processing a single sentence . It appears to be the most difficult and probably the least understood aspect of automated message understanding. Five out of fifteen sites on a MUC-3 survey listed discourse as their main weakness and an area in which t o concentrate future research . Virtually all systems presented here take a sen...

Bakhtin's tendency to continually recommence his research is what Todorov calls "repetition": "un ressassement eternellement recommencé" (1981: 25). Bakhtin's work, says Todorov, does not know development in the true sense of the word: the centre of interest and formulation changes, but despite certain changes and shifts (even if they are hardly perceptible), Bakhtin's discourse continually ret...