The intensification of the discussion on German colonial past at present stage combines experience historical research this topic with domestic and foreign policy objectives Germany’s leadership. purpose article is to examine process rethinking in Federal Republic Germany as a part ideological support for FRG’s African direction. examines how debate over has evolved recent years, affects govern...

The paper deals with the cohesion part of a model of global discourse interpretation, usually known as Veins Theory (VT). By taking the notion of nuclearity (though ignoring relations), from the Rhetorical Structure Theory, VT computes strings of discourse units, called veins, from which domains of accessibility can be determined for each discourse unit. VT’s constructs best fit with an increme...

This paper argues for a novel data structure for the representation of discourse referents. A so-called hashing list is employed to store discourse referents according to their grammatical features. The account proposed combines insights from several theories of discourse comprehension. Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher, 1993) is enriched by the ranking system developed in center...

ABSTRACT This article demonstrates that in some contemporary German‐language novels Polish motifs serve as a foil for the negative projection of cultural self‐images. The image Poles is stereotypical because it contains high degree generalisation and embodies world views – such nationalism, anti‐Semitism, anti‐Romanyism, fundamentalism which contradict ideal self being tolerant open‐minded. fic...

Presupposition is a pervasive feature of human language. It involves many interesting interactions between the utterances of a discourse and the context of the discourse. In this paper we focus on issues of logical form connected with the interaction of presupposition and discourse context, and illustrate our theory with some implementational work using the active logic framework. After reviewi...

[1] Is there yet any serious discourse theory with testable computational and empirical consequences? [2] What phenomena ought a processing theory of discourse understanding/generation to address itself that are not already being attended to currently? [3] What aspects of discourse are language problems and which are general AI/KR problems? [4] What makes a theory of discourse a processing theo...