This paper describes and analyses the political discourse regarding e-government (including terms earlier used) in Sweden in the period from the 1960s until today, drawing on a review of policy documents. It is found that even though both the meanings ascribed to computers, the political visions, and the main arguments have changed considerably over time, the major plans for action have always ...

This paper discusses the gender difference in the English intonation patterns used by native speakers of English from sociophonetic and functional perspectives with a preliminary corpus-based experimental study. The main purpose of this research is to dig out the possible reasons of gender difference in intonation usage with social and cultural impacts. The research isolates gender as the major...

Western governments currently prioritize economic growth and the pursuit of profit above alternative goals of sustainability, health and equality. Climate change and rising energy costs are challenging this consensus. The realization of the transformation required to meet these challenges has provoked denial and conflict, but could lead to a more positive response which leads to a health divide...

Computational modeling of discourse structure is a fundamental component of theoretical and application-oriented work in natural language processing. A representation of the underlying structure of a discourse enhances the ability of a natural language system to interpret and generate a wide variety of linguistic phenomena. This symposium was designed to bring together researchers in different ...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

A discourse planner for (task-oriented) dialogue must be able to make choices about whether relevant, but optional information (for example, the "satellites" in an RST-based planner) Should be communicated. We claim that effective text planners must explicitly model aspects of the Hearer's cognitive state, such as what the hearer is attending to and what inferences the hearer can draw, in ord@r...

Using the pragmatic approach to code-switching studies, this paper presents a case study of how group Thai multilingual teenagers employ organise their discourse while gaming. Auer’s method sequential analysis was used reveal ways participants negotiate language for interaction and conversational tasks. Participants were found have both participant-related discourse-related in interactions with...