1. I n t r o d u c t i o n 1 In this paper I will review the state of the text generation lexicon. I have two primary goals: 1) to give the reader an idea of what is currently being done, by setting out some of the alternatives designers of generation lexicons have faced, the choices they have made, and the implications of these choices for the types of lexical phenomena they have been able to ...

Most of the experimental research on dialogue that has provided evidence for interactive alignment focuses on speakers aligning at the lexical and syntactic levels of representations and dialogic contributions, i.e., having converging choices of lexical and syntactic means of referring to pictured objects and events. Less is known about alignment at the conceptual level, or situation models. Th...

Media in general and news in particular constitute indispensable parts of modern life. TV news which contains visual elements in addition to the verbal aspects was used as the corpus of this study. In fact, this research culled out the ideologies of Iranian national television in presenting different issues. To be more precise, three internationally-significant pieces of news reports were chose...

This article proposes an annotation method of corpus data for the purposes of providing a constructionist account of lexical behavior. The lexical items in question are seven verbs of motion in Modern Standard Arabic that pertain to the events of COME (atā, ǧā’a, ḥaḍara, and qadima) and GO (ḏahaba, maḍā, and rāḥa). The tag set selected for the annotation of the COME and GO data frames consists ...

From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), lexical metaphors are recognized as a resource for enacting interpersonal meaning in discourse. Within the APPRAISAL framework, they constitute a means for ‘provoking’ an attitudinal interpretation. While the interpersonal function of lexical metaphors is well recognized in SFL, there have been relatively few studies that focus spec...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

In natural language generation, the use of a lexicalized grammar formalism and incremental syntactic and semantic processing places strong and specific constraints on the form and meaning of grammatical entries. These principles restrict which grammatical representations are possible and suggest examples an analyst can consult to decide among possibilities. We discuss and justify a number of su...