EXPRESSIVE SYNTAX IN PRESIDENTIAL DISCOURSE VLADIMIR ZELENSKY

Egocentricity in Discourse and Syntax

Constructing Syntax from Discourse

What is functionalism? Both Silverstein (1987) and Nichols (1984) have analyzed in detail the variety of ways functionalism has been used by linguists. Silverstein made a division into four types of functions, referential and pragmatic: (a) `sense-structure', (b) the `abstract, "sentence"-internal distribution of forms,' (c) the `use of signal forms for purposive, intentional social effect' (d)...

Critical Discourse Analysis of Hedges and Boosters in Iranian TV Election Debates of Presidential Candidates

To win the attention of the audience, presidential candidates rely on their own rhetorical methods. Hedges and boosters as metadiscourse markers have been the focus of many studies as the communicative strategies enabling speakers to soften the force of utterances or moderate their assertive force. TV news was used as the corpus of this study, whereas most of the previous studies have focused o...

Semantics and Discourse Processing for Expressive TTS

In this paper we present ongoing work to produce an expressive TTS reader that can be used both in text and dialogue applications. The system has been previously used to read (English) poetry and it has now been extended to apply to short stories. The text is fully analyzed both at phonetic and phonological level, and at syntactic and semantic level. The core of the system is the Prosodic Manag...

The Syntax-discourse Divide: Processing Ellipsis.

VP-ellipsis and sluicing are forms of ellipsis that can cross a sentence boundary. We present a series of comprehension studies on these forms of ellipsis to elucidate their processing and the relation of syntactic and discourse processing. One set of studies examines the hypothesis that the representation of elided material is syntactically structured. We present evidence supporting the hypoth...