This paper focuses on the interpretation of metaphor in discourse. We build on previous work (Agerri, Barnden, Lee, & Wallington, 2007) to offer a formalization in a computationally-oriented formal semantic framework of a set of mappings that we claim are required for the interpretation of map-transcending metaphor. Such mappings are domain-independent and are identified as invariant adjuncts t...

Classical constraint systems require that the set of variables which exist in a problem be known ab initio. However, there are some applications in which the existence of certain variables is dependent on conditions whose truth or falsity can only be determined dynamically. In this paper, we show how this conditional existence of variables can be handled in a mathematically well-founded fashion...

This article discusses the ways in which London was represented and navigated in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Belgravia, a shilling monthly magazine, during the ten years of her editorship between 1866 and 1876. Using Braddon’s serialised novels and the diverse articles over which she had editorial control as evidence, I argue that by deploying a sensational discourse to represent London -in contra...

Discourse analysis may be performed in different ways, but all of the procedural variations share some philosophical underpinnings. This article will describe the theoretical antecedents for the Foucaultian version of this useful method of inquiry.

In this paper we present a new neutrosophic crisp family generated from the three components’ neutrosophic crisp sets presented by Salama [4]. The idea behind Salam’s neutrosophic crisp set was to classify the elements of a universe of discourse with respect to an event ”A” into three classes: one class contains those elements that are fully supportive to A, another class contains those element...

This paper analyses the semantic attributes discourse referents in Catalan Sign Language may have in order to have a corresponding location established in sign space. It is argued that a combination of scope and topicality is required when analysing the correlation between the introduction of entities into the discourse and assigning a spatial location.

New definitions of graded reflexivity, symmetry, transitivity, antisymmetry, and functionality of fuzzy relations are proposed which are relative to an indistinguishability relation E on the universe of discourse. It is shown that if considered nongraded (i.e., either fully present or else fully absent), the new definitions reduce to the usual ones under full extensionality of the relation w.r....

Understanding of “Coherence” In my understanding, coherence in computer-mediated conversation (CMC) is a logical, consistent, and orderly flow of conversations in electronic environments. Herring (1999) identified two major problems that could cause incoherence in CMC: lack of simultaneous feedback and disrupted turn adjacency. Herring demonstrated the problems by using examples from synchronou...