during the era of bush administration and post-september 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. from my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an iranophobic...

This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based approach to implicature, 2) a reversible architecture for generation and interpretation, 3) a hybrid reasoning model that employs both plan inference and logical inference, and 4) use of stimulus conditions to model a speak...

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) remains an attractive solution for real-time rendering of complex light transport effects such as glossy global illumination. After precomputation, we can relight the scene with new environment maps while changing viewpoint in real-time. However, practical PRT methods are usually limited to low-frequency spherical harmonic lighting. All-frequency techniques u...

This paper presents an augmented context free grammar which describes important features of the surface structure and the semantics of discourse in a formal way, integrating new as well as previously existing insights into a unified framework. The structures covered include lists, narratives, subordinating and coordinating rhetorical relations, topic chains and interruptions. The paper discusse...

this research, relying on critical discourse analysis(cda), has proceed to analyze ten novels of modern iranian men and women writers.in the field of lexicon, using marked lexicon and metaphor, and in the section of syntax, using syntactic non – norm in the texts, it has compared active vs. passive sentences, long vs. short sentences, and direct vs. indirect speech with regard to gender of the ...

The interrelationship of natural and cultural history in Don DeLillo’s Underworld presents an ecology mimesis. If, as Timothy Morton argues, ecological thought can be understood a “mesh interconnection,” novel studies the interpretation connection. situates its action Cold War era. formal techniques examine tropes paranoia, containment, excess, waste peculiar to War. Parataxis free-indirect dis...