Inevitably, reading is one of the requirements to be undergone. To improve the performance and quality, someone needs to have something new every day. It will suggest you to have more inspirations, then. However, the needs of inspirations will make you searching for some sources. Even from the other people experience, internet, and many books. Books and internet are the recommended media to hel...

We report work on adding affect-detection to an existing e-drama programme, a text-based software system for (human) dramatic improvisation in simple virtual scenarios, for use primarily in learning contexts. The system allows a human director to monitor improvisations and make interventions, for instance in reaction to excessive, insufficient or inappropriate emotions in the characters’ speech...

This paper presents the main outcome of the ECPC research group: an archive of European parliamentary speeches created to study this genre and the hypothetical influence of translation in the construction of European identity. The archive is made up of, on the one hand, a parallel corpus containing the English and Spanish versions of the European Parliament proceedings, and on the other hand, t...

This paper questions the current highlighted question of “fake drugs” in the media and through institutional speeches. After a brief reminder of the expressions used previously in France and in the French-speaking countries of West Africa, the realities which recover various phenomena will be discussed as well as the hotchpotch often made between them: the phenomenon of counterfeit drugs, that ...

Scholars of Luke-Acts have struggled to define the apostles' proclamations of judgment on those who threatened the early Christian community. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 4.32-5.11), Simon magus (8.4-25) and Bar-Jesus (13.4-12) all fall victim to the apostles' words of power, yet scholars have typically shied away from categorizing their speeches as curses. Close analysis of the structure, style,...

This paper presents a study on natural expressive speech during public talks. Specifically, we focus on how people convey important messages that may be retained in the audience’s consciousness. Our study aims to answer several questions. Why are some public speeches memorable and inspirational for the audience, while others are not? Why are some memorable/inspirational spoken quotes more popul...

as imam ali’s precious words, which are endowed with sublime ethical and religious concepts, have been fountainhead of rhetoric, a good number of scholars and poets have attempted to manifest literal and thematic beauty in their works through memorizing imam’s speeches and benefitting from them. such influence of imam ali’s language and thoughts had a very special manifestation in the poetry of...

politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. to name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...