ny text or dialogue establishes a linguistic context within which subsequent utterances must be understood. And beyond the linguistic context is the participatory context. A speaker or writer directs an utterance or text toward a hearer or reader with a particular purpose—-to inform, to amuse, to collaborate in a task, perhaps. The form and content of the utterance are chosen accordingly, and t...

This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

Knowledge format is a construct for information storing, accumulating, transmitting. Text and discourse are studied as main knowledge formats. Previous studies have found the literary text defined product of writer’s speech-thinking activity. Discourse interpreted immersed in communicative situation. The construction specific features revealed through their modeling an objective way formats arc...

In this work we present a method for selecting instances for a writer identification system underpinned on the dissimilarity representation and a holistic representation based on texture. The proposed method is based on a genetic algorithm that surpasses the limitations imposed by large training sets by selecting writers instead of instances. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, we ha...

This paper studies the core-identity of Al Mustafa (the chosen) in Gibran's book The Prophet (1923) as an individual property by investigating its discursive features revealed words and deeds participants discourse. study deals with how Gibran refers to protagonist this portrayal reflects on identity writer. It examines prophet himself, his worries needs, interlocutors address him discourse fin...