News stories on negative phenomena such as crime news can stir diverse angles of reality which result in forms behaviors. This study examined the linguistic devices and discourse strategies employed by Filipino Journalists constructing broadcasts. The Linguistic Analysis (LA) framework – using lens Ilya Romanovich Galperin van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Model were used; 25 mainstream broadcasted Ph...

The article analyses the main functions of rhetorical questions in political speech. author uses politician Heydar Aliyev's speeches as linguistic material. As were mostly Azerbaijani language, issue is considered based on which very relevant for linguistics. speech was rich questions. mentions that one syntactic means used polemics question to make address emotional and critical, thus paving w...

The change to digital writing amounts to a reconfiguration which affects the very nature of knowledge. There is a scientific and operational stake in the study of the characteristics inherent to this renewed form of writing, particularly for the design of systems, the analysis of practices and the teaching of digital writing. This paper contributes to such purpose with a theoretical study based...

Novice academic writers, particularly Iranian graduate students (IGSs), upon entering an academic community, are hypothesized to face probable difficulties in practicing rhetorical expectations set by the experienced (EXP) members, hence, not being able to write in a way acceptable to these professionals. To explore the probable rhetorical distance between them, this study investigated the empl...

Abstract Although flourishing research has been devoted to research on article abstracts, more studies are needed to unpack the relationship between rhetorical moves and their associated linguistic and rhetorical features (e.g., metadiscourse). To underpin this relationship, the current study analyzed a total of 60 research article abstracts written in English by two cultural groups in three di...

We provide an account of the alignment of linguistic form and discourse function with respect to English tag questions, adopting as a formal framework Segmented Discourse Representation Theory. SDRT models the discourse function of utterances via their rhetorical connection to the antecedent discourse. We pay particular attention to the prosodic features of tag questions and their contribution ...

Coherent texts are not just simple sequences of clauses and sentences, but rather complex artifacts that have highly elaborate rhetorical structure. This paper explores the extent to which well-formed rhetorical structures can be automatically derived by means of surface-form-based algorithms. These algorithms identify discourse usages of cue phrases and break sentences into clauses, hypothesiz...

The study of inaugural speeches is fairly consolidated, especially if we refer to the analysis American presidents. Much less available on subject when delve into lesser-known presidential figures, such as presidents European institutions. through methodology discourse has helped reveal their political intentions, way persuading listeners, building trust and empathy with public, but also reaffi...