Textlinguistic Perspective in Newspaper Editorial Texts: Al-Quds Al-‘Arabi Newspaper as a Case Study

Formalization Of Argumentation Structures In Newspaper Texts

Reading newspapers may be seen as an "everyday cognitive task". Therefore it is not astonishing that some work in Artificial Intelligence aims at the simulation of aspects of the understanding processes of newspaper readers [Eisenstadt 1977; Rosenberg 1977]. There have even been pioneering system~: the Script ~0plier Mechanism [Cullingford 1978] demonstrated careful reading of "event~--oriented...

Critique of Arabic Texts/ Critical Review of Al-Adab al-Arabi Min-Asr al-Jahili, Ali Ghahramani and Masoud Bavanpour

Development and Implementation of a Discourse Model for Newspaper Texts

In this paper, we will focus on the development, implementation, and evolution of a discourse model which is used to computationally instantiate a discourse structure in individual texts. This discourse model was developed for use in a Text Structuring module that recognizes discourse-level structure within a large-scale information retrieval system, DR-LINK (Liddy Myaeng, 1993). The Text Struc...

Reflection of Knowledge and Information Science’s News in the Press: A Case Study of Iran Newspaper

Background and Aim: The present study aims to explore the coverage and reflection of Knowledge and Information Science news in the Iranian press. Iran Newspaper which is one of the main public newspapers in the country has been selected as the case for this study. Method: This study used content analysis as its research methodology and adopted an inductive approach in data analysis. All the pag...

Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Newspaper Editorials

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...