Accumulating evidence suggests that mental simulation of the future and past relies on common processes supported by the hippocampus. However, it is currently unknown whether the hippocampus also supports the ability to share these mental simulations with others. Recently, it has been proposed that language and language-related structures in the brain are particularly important for communicatin...

In this paper we propose a cognitive model that simulates the acquisition of object pronouns. The model will be implemented to generate precise and testable predictions about the comprehension and production of object pronouns. During sentence processing, the model incrementally builds a structural representation of the sentence, and the model incrementally constructs a discourse representation...

The analytical paper mainly deals with the questions how the image of Sister Phoenix, one of the most “popular” ugly stars in China is narrated, and how it is reconstructed and circulated by the media. In the paper, the author utilize multiple analytical devices, such as Gee’s seven building tasks (2010), Bahktin’s dialogical processes, Fairclough’s (2003) approaches to critical discourse analy...

“Health is never simply ‘health’; instead it can easily become a means of moralising, of normalising and of regulating.” (Parr 2002: 373, cited in Evans 2006: 259). Fatness, unlike smoking or drug use, is highly visible and, in our thinness – obsessed culture, often incurs immediate moralising and judgement. The language of official publications constructs women with a high BMI as a ‘problem’ t...

The information overload faced by today’s society poses great challenges to researchers who want to find a relevant piece of information. Automatic summarisation is a field of computational linguistics which can help humans to deal with this information overload by automatically extracting the gist of documents. This thesis attempts to gain insights into the automatic summarisation field from s...

BACKGROUND The vascular hypothesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), and its treatment (known as liberation therapy) was immediately rejected by experts but enthusiastically gripped by patients who shared their experiences with other patients worldwide by use of social media, such as patient online forums. Contradictions between scientific in...