In this paper, the projections of evolutionary archetypes in discursive or narrative texts are analyzed through Critical Discourse Analysis with an perspective not only natural selection but also sexual selection. Accordingly, contents such as altruism, love and justice which refer to uneconomical superfluous human behaviors terms certifiable were analyzed, categorized, compared, contrasted quo...

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...

The 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida reignited a discourse about safety and prevention that often follows such tragedies. Using case study approach, we analyze the events leading up to (via official records from law enforcement shooting’s review commission) identify missed opportunities for intervention, de-escalation, ultimately prevention. Path I...

feminist critical discourse analysis is an approach distinguished by its focus on revealing unequal power relations between women and men in their social life. in the present paper, it is suggested that simone de beauvoir’s theory of the formation of gender identity and female subject in the second sex provides a meaningful theoretical ground to the feminist critical discourse analysis. althoug...

Keywords: language interpretationlanguage generationdiscourse segmentationdiscourse relations Contents list: Theories of discourse structure; Interpretation of discourse; Generation of discourse; Empirical approaches to discourse Discourse Processing concerns the computational processes underlying the interpretation and production of text encompassing more than one sentence, i.e., discourse. Di...

Translation of discourse relations is one of the recent efforts of incorporating discourse information to statistical machine translation (SMT). While existing works focus on disambiguation of ambiguous discourse connectives, or transformation of discourse trees, only explicit discourse relations are tackled. A greater challenge exists in machine translation of Chinese, since implicit discourse...

We introduce a simple and effective method to learn discourse-specific word embeddings (DSWE) for implicit discourse relation recognition. Specifically, DSWE is learned by performing connective classification on massive explicit discourse data, and capable of capturing discourse relationships between words. On the PDTB data set, using DSWE as features achieves significant improvements over base...

Seekers of information in libraries either go through a librarian intermediary or they help themselves. When they go through librarians they must develop their questions through four levels of need, referred to here as the visceral, conscious, formalized, and compromised needs. In his pre-search interview with an information-seeker the reference librarian attempts to help him arrive at an under...

Sense-making theory has suffered from a lack of development. I claim that the reason for this state of affairs lies in two facts: 1) the theory has never been explicitly and systematically expounded and brought down to the empirical level step by step, and 2) there has been little discussion on the impact of empirical results on the theory, i.e. an explicit discussion of the assumed circular im...

Dmitri Roussinov Department of Information Systems Arizona State University [email protected]