Rhetorical structure theory (RST) provides a model of textual function based upon rhetoric. Initially developed as a model of text coherence, RST has been used extensively in text generation research, and has more recently been proposed as a basis for multimedia presentation generation. This paper investigates the use of RST for generating video presentations having a rhetorical form, using mod...

This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future directions. We include ontological models of argument schemes applying Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST); the RhetFig proposal for modeling; the related RetFig Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian (developed by two o...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest Consciousness Studies as the fertile ground for linking the fields of Rhetoric, Sciences, and Graduate Liberal Studies. In order to do that, I first present a theoretical model developed in a master’s thesis on the topic of consciousness, which was completed in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at San Diego State University. Drawing widely from researc...

This article focuses on some principles for understanding. By taking Anna Mikulak's article "Mismatches between 'scientific' and 'non-scientific' ways of knowing and their contributions to public understanding of science" (IPBS 2011) as a point of departure, the idea of demarcation criteria for scientific and non-scientific discourses is addressed. Yet this is juxtaposed with mythical thinking,...

We present a shift-reduce rhetorical parsing algorithm that learns to construct rhetorical structures of texts from a corpus of discourse-parse action sequences. The algorithm exploits robust lexical, syntactic, and semantic knowledge sources.

Aim/Purpose: To provide a research proposal writing framework to help doctoral students argue and motivate their efforts at furthering the existing knowledge available understand some phenomenon or theory. Background: I discuss how cognitive process theory of science heuristic can lead set rhetorical moves question prompts that use develop content proposals. Methodology: searched literature on ...

one of the important subjects in rhetoric is the study of secondary meanings in sentences. questions are sentences which demonstrate neither facts nor lies. rhetorical questions often need no answers but attempt to show some rhetorical functions such as surprise, denial, regret, desire, etc. in this article, first, the structure and the frequency of questions in qeysar aminpour’s poetry volumes...

As part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in Gricean CP and similar models.  In order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...

A viable model of interactive discourse must explain how interlocutors share conversational control to construct the discourse, and recognize the contributions of others to it. The position that I take in this paper is from a narrower perspective, one in which there is a primary speaker who controls and directs the discourse, but that does so while trying to accommodate the informational needs ...