in critical analysis, different aspects of an issue will be analyzed from point of view of current discourse of society. the objective of this paper, is to critically analyze the economic goals of development plans (pre and post revaluation). in this respect, many papers and research report has been considered and the results show that critical discourse have paid attention to plans and its eco...

this article examines women's discursive space of physical activity in order to answer an important question: why most women have problems with regular physical activity and cannot permanently benefit from a long-term regular exercise program. the analysis was performed with concepts discussed in the discourse theory of laclau and mouffe(1995). there are two main discourses in the women&ap...

the goal of this study was to investigate the kinds of discourse goals that iranian efl learners perceive as the most probable reasons behind the utterance of figurative language, metaphors and similes, with reference to 4 independent variables of figure type (metaphor or simile), tenor concreteness (concrete or abstract), context (list format or story), and modality (oral, written, and both). ...

Discourse structure is concerned with how the parts of a text relate together to convey meaning. In task-oriented dialogues, such as those which occur in the domain of Vie-DU , a NL consulting system designed to provide information on the granting of subsidies for house improvements, the structure of discourse corresponds strongly with the goals and intentions of the agents involved in the inte...

-Human discourse appears coherent when it refleets coherent human thought. However, computers do not necessarily store or process information in the same way that people do a.ud~ therefore, cannot rely on the structure of their reuouing for the structure of thehr dialogue,s. Instead, computer-generated conversation must rely on some other mechanism for its orgsaiisation. In this paper, we discu...

The goal of this study was to investigate the kinds of discourse goals that Iranian EFL learners perceive as the most probable reasons behind the utterance of figurative language, metaphors and similes, with reference to 4 independent variables of Figure Type (Metaphor or Simile), Tenor Concreteness (Concrete or Abstract), Context (List Format or Story), and Modality (Oral, Written, and Both). ...

Cohen and Levesque have developed a theory of rational action that can be used to guide the actions of an intelligent agent. A fundamental building block of Cohen and Levesque's theory is their notion of a persistent goal. In this paper, we extend persistent goals by recasting them in terms of add/drop conditions, and introducing time intervals. These two extensions are then used to deene time-...

This paper presents a brief description of Explanation-Based Learning (EBL), and argues that it is an approach to machine learning with signi cant potential for use in discourse processing. More speci cally, EBL can be used by systems that model discourse generation as goaldriven behavior, and that model discourse interpretation as recognizing the speaker's discourse goals. As evidence, we desc...

The paper investigates the use of gaze in political communication. A study is presented on the electoral debates of two politicians in Italy and France. Fragments of their verbal discourse were analysed in terms of their hierarchy of goals, and their gaze communication was described and classified in terms of the persuasive strategies they pursue, logos, ethos or pathos. The results show that t...