Computer-based logic proofs are a form of ’unnatural’ language discourse, but the structure and process of proof can be observed in considerable detail, and analysis is leading to a number of general insights. We have been studying how students respond to multimodal logic teaching. First, psychological measures indicate that students’ pre-existing cognitive styles have a sigaificant impact on t...

We describe an approach to resolving definite descriptious and pronominal anaphora as subcases of a general strategy for presupposition satisfaction. Generally, a presupposition is satisfied in a context if the context contains a specific type of information and is organized in such a way that this information can be retrieved by the interlocutors. The model of discourse context we develop assu...

during the era of bush administration and post-september 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. from my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an iranophobic...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Schema-based Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, e.g., [Weiner, 1980; McKeown, 1985; Paris, 1988], determine the information to be presented based on common patterns of discourse. Goal-based planners, e.g., [Moore and Swartout, 1989; Cawsey, 1990], select a discourse operator if its prescribed effect matches a given communicative goal. If there is more than one ...

Eine Reihe von Diskurspartikeln werden mit dem Ziel analysiert, die Rolle, die sie bei der Markierung von Sprechakten spielen können, zu erklären. Die Analyse verwendet eine optimalitätstheoretische Rekonstruktion der Präsuppositionstheorie.

This paper investigates Robert Brandom’s programme of logical expressivism and in the process attempts to clarify his use of the term practice, by means of a detailed comparison with the works of sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu. It turns out that the two scholars have a number of concerns in common, including the means by which core practices can be amalgamated into more sophisti...

According to the humanitarian urbanistics, one of most important indicators quality life in a modern city is level happiness its population. The article seeks clarify meaning relationship and urban culture with concept happiness, historical changes images their place contemporary practices life. An attempt made analyze mythopoetic discourse context city.