SWAN/SIOC is an alignment of two Web ontologies that, taken together, represent Scientific Discourse in online communities at different levels of granularity (content items and discourse elements). The goal of this alignment is to make the discourse structure and component relationships much more accessible to computation, so that information can be navigated, compared and understood in a conte...

The aim of this article is to show which textual devices are used by the most popular women's magazine in Slovenia to construct a commonsense consensual view of female sexuality. A critical discourse analysis of the Cosmopolitan’s advice articles on one of the most intimate parts of the private life – sex – was analysed. I propose that the writers of advice articles use pseudo-intimate, pseudo-...

Production of scientific data has been accelerated exponentially though ease of access to the required knowledge is still challenging. Hence, the emergence of new frameworks to allow more efficient storage of information would be beneficial. Attaining intelligent platforms enable the smart article to serve as a forum for exchanging idea among experts of academic disciplines for a rapid and effi...

The Coruña Corpus of scientific writing will be used for the diachronic study of scientific discourse from most linguistic levels and thereby contribute to the study of the historical development of English. The Coruña Corpus Tool is an information retrieval system that allows the extraction of knowledge from the corpus.

This essay surveys four articles of the section dedicated to the boundaries of fiction in literature, scientific discourse, and other areas of human creativity. The section is supposed to contribute to the study of a broad range of the problems of literary theory, such as the interaction between literature and other social practices, resulting in the creation of a particular discourse of ‘reali...