Movie posters, a multimodal genre used to attract viewers, are complex form of communication that contains verbal and visual semiotic resources. The entertainment company Marvel has created cinematic universe where movie posters play an essential role in marketing. Despite Marvel’s global influence sociocultural practices, few studies investigate its posters. Hence, this study analyzes the stru...

Domain specific languages embedded in C++ (EDSLs) often use the techniques of template metaprogramming and expression templates. However, these techniques can require verbose code and introduce maintenance and debugging challenges. This paper presents a tool written in Racket for generating C++ programs, paying particular attention to the challenges of metaprogramming. The code generator uses R...

The goal of the analysis is to examine the function of the expressiveness of intonation from the viewpoint of three metafunctions of Systemic Grammar. One of the findings in this paper is that the Ideational metafunction in tone languages is functionally limited because of the pitch movement reserved for lexical distinction. In the Textual metafunction, especially for certain phenomena such as ...

Phenomena with a constrained sample space appear frequently in practice. This is the case, for example, with strictly positive data, or with compositional data, such as percentages or proportions. If the natural measure of difference is not the absolute one, simple algebraic properties show that it is more convenient to work with a geometry different from the usual Euclidean geometry in real sp...

The amalgamation operation is frequently used to reduce the number of parts of compositional data but it is a non-linear operation in the simplex with the usual geometry, the Aitchison geometry. The concept of balances between groups, a particular coordinate system designed over binary partitions of the parts, could be an alternative to the amalgamation in some cases. In this work we discuss th...

SAlthough different theoretical models are complementary, functional models in general, andSystemic Functional Linguistics in particular lend themselves to the analysis of text. This is so atthe level of register, in terms of Field, Tenor and Mode, as well as at the level of semantics interms of ideational, interpersonal and textual metafunction. This paper will consider two...