Hengeveld/Mackenzie (2008: 52) consider that the constructions with mas ‘but’ result from combination of two Discursive Acts different communicative statutes, there being a Nuclear Act, greater weight, and Subsidiary which will have rhetorical function named “Concession”. This paper aims to investigate various uses ‘but’, according Functional Discourse Grammar, in order determine pragmatic, sem...

In Indigenous/settler relations, temporal rhetoric functions as an essential tool for both subjugation and resistance. Much scholarship on these temporalities focuses Turtle Island is thus implicitly shaped by a seminal historical event: the arrival of European colonizers. We extend this research turning to Sweden, where Indigenous Sami Scandinavians, who would later become their colonizers, ha...

The study of argumentation has undergone periods of decadence alternate with periods of renaissance. Currently, we are witnessing one of the latter, as proved by research flowering in many issues and aspects, both in Philosophy and in Artificial Intelligence. The work presented in this thesis is concerned in particular with “rhetorical argumentation”, which on the other hand has enjoyed conside...

Then he went about his regular, non-Twitter affairs. The next afternoon, fresh from a nap, he checked his account, stared at the outcome, and tweeted to @upulieto, an associate, “I just woke up. What a mess” [49]. His tweet had spiraled virally: tens of thousands of likes, retweets, endless streams of commentary. Why? Well, lots of factors, of course. There is rarely a single factor to which on...

This paper examines hedging as a rhetorical resource employed by fifth year (DIPES II) students of the Higher Teacher Training College Maroua in Cameroon to show politeness, respect, humility and tentativeness presenting their arguments or stating facts subjective opinions. A specialized corpus 46.368 tokens was used hedges were retrieved using AntConc 3.4.4. Data analyzed both quantitatively q...

Genre analysis has received much attention in the last decades. For both academic and pedagogical purposes, different genres have been analysed terms of their rhetorical features. In English for Specific Purposes (ESP) tradition, genre focuses on communicative functions described moves steps, linguistic properties these functions. such an having structural aspects, researchers typically use mod...

In many applications in computational linguistics, such as machine translation, we want to understand why a writer has used language in a particular way, what specific effects she intended to convey, and which linguistic choices were made to achieve those goals. This idea, that a writer has specific communicative goals or intentions in mind when she composes text, goes back to the study of clas...

We describe a classifier which determines the rhetorical status of sentences in texts from a corpus of judgments of the UK House of Lords. Our summarisation system is based on the work of Teufel and Moens where sentences are classified for rhetorical status to aid sentence selection. We experiment with a variety of linguistic features with results comparable to Teufel and Moens, thereby demonst...

This chapter defines professional communication in intercultural contexts. It presents a workable model of culture, connects that model to rhetoric, and provides a method to analyze rhetorics and cultures in intercultural contexts. It also contextualizes the model of intercultural rhetorical research in prevailing paradigms of rhetoric and professional communication, strongly criticizing the lo...