doing researches on the arts of rhetoric and oratory which relates to meaning hunting and using it through speech structure has earned, from the ancient periods, the attention of critics and scholars in all over the world, and paying attention to coherent speeches is what can be traced in ancient iran before the arrival of islam. instructive brevities, phrases full of similes and metaphors, elo...

This paper reports on the setup and evaluation of robust speech recognition system parts, geared towards transcript generation for heterogeneous, real-life media collections. The system is deployed for generating speech transcripts for the NIST/TRECVID-2007 test collection, part of a Dutch real-life archive of news-related genres. Performance figures for this type of content are compared to fig...

This paper reports on the setup and evaluation of robust speech recognition system parts, geared towards transcript generation for heterogeneous, real-life media collections. The system is deployed for generating speech transcripts for the NIST/TRECVID-2007 test collection, part of a Dutch real-life archive of news-related genres. Performance figures for this type of content are compared to fig...

Literature is the aesthetic manifestation of language. It is ‘as old as human language and as new as tomorrow’s sunrise.’ This paper explores the interrelationships between language and literature from 600 AD to the present day.  The grammar of present-day English is closely related to that of Old English with the same tense formation and word orders. The verse unit is a single line and its org...

This paper investigates how the theme of uprising is conveyed in Bob Marley’s final music album by the name “Uprising”. Through the methodological lenses of multimodality, attention is focused on how the album cover design, lexical items, literary devices, and other aesthetic ways such as the titles of the ten songs of the album and their order of arrangement contribute to the overall theme of ...

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...