before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of iran's seventh president, hasan rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. the current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical move...

Asbtract This paper elaborates on an FPA approach of EFP and on the added value of certain social constructivist approaches relying on discourse analysis. While discourse analysis has sometimes been presented as competing with traditional approaches of FPA, both can also be seen as complementary, we will draw on a revised FPA framework (White, 2001) and highlight how a discourse analysis approa...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could be seen as a theory in qualitative more than in qualitative stud- ies. This might have led to difficulty in doing CDA. Accordingly, this study attempted to develop a quan- titative profile in the form of an analytic rubric. For this purpose, Fairclough’s model of CDA was select- ed as the research framework. The techniques used for structuring analy...

State-of-the-art methods in automatic summarization rely almost exclusively on extracting salient sentences from input texts. Such extractive methods succeed in producing summaries which capture salient information but fail to produce fluent and coherent summaries. Recent progress in robust semantic analysis makes the application of semantic techniques to summarization relevant. We review in th...