As its main goal, this study seeks to contribute the analysis of narrative discourse by investigating strategies and devices provided modern prose fictions like D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox for constructing/representing fictional minds or consciousness characters in texts. paper is structured two sections. Drawing from insights both Classical Poststructuralist narratology, theoretical section brings...

An indirect answer to! a Yes-No question conversationally implicates the speaker's evaluation of the truth of the questioned proposition. We present the approach to generation used in our implemented system for generating and interpret~ing indirect answers to Yes-No questions in English. Generation of a discourse plan is performed in two phases: content planning and plan pruning. During content...

Today’s artificial assistants are typically prompted to perform tasks through direct, imperative commands such as Set a timer or Pick up the box. However, to progress toward more natural exchanges between humans and these assistants, it is important to understand the way non-imperative utterances can indirectly elicit action of an addressee. In this paper, we investigate command types in the se...

We present scenarii showing the interactive construction of operators. Some grammars and their progressive refinements through the “feedback” method are given as an example: a kernel of grammars for retrieving quotations, a grammar reflecting a current syntactic operator. We also recall previously developed morphological parsers. These grammars are designed as Finite State Automata, part of the...

Cryptography has been instrumental in reducing the involvement of overhead third parties in protocols. For example; a digital signature scheme assures a recipient that a judge who is not present at message transmission will nevertheless approve the validity of the signature. Similarly, in oo-line electronic cash the bank (which is oo-line during a purchase) is assured that if a user double spen...

The article analyzes the drama Requiem dla gospodyni by Wiesław Myśliwski in context of free indirect discourse as understood literary criticism. author discusses instances this form expression used utterances Boleś, a shepherd and country madman an unknown ontological status. She notices problems with distinguishing between speech direct quoting late titular landlady [gospodyni] whom Boleś est...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...