LEXICO-SEMANTIC MEANS OF SPEECH AGGRESSION IN TELEVISION DISCOURSE

Does television violence cause aggression?

Lexico-Semantic Annotation of Składnica Treebank by means of PLWN Lexical Units

In this paper we present the principles of lexico-semantic annotation of Składnica Treebank using Polish WordNet lexical units. We describe different means of annotation, depending on the structure of a sentence in Składnica on the one hand and the availability of adequate lexical unit in PLWN on the other. Apart from “standard” annotation involving lexical units with the same lemma as the toke...

Discourse Structures of Condolence Speech Act

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

investigation of (meta)discourse markers in elt coursebooks

the present study aimed to investigate representation of discourse markers and metadiscourse markers in conversations and readings of general elt coursebook series used in the language centers of iran. to this aim, four elt coursebooks popularly taught in language centers of this country were analyzed based on fung and carter’s (2007) framework regarding discourse markers and hyland’s (2005) fr...

Extraction of Lexico-Semantic Classes from Text

This paper describes an unsupervised method for extracting lexico-semantic classes from POS annotated corpora. The method consists in building bi-dimensional clusters of both words and local syntactic contexts. Each cluster, which represents a lexicosemantic class such as “entities in danger” is the result of merging its most prototypical constituents (words and contexts). The generated cluster...