after 50 years of  hegemony of  the  mubarak authoritarian discourse in egypt, the people of this country were able to challenge the hegemony of authoritarian discourse. with the fall of the mubarak regime, the muslim brotherhood seized power. a year after  that muslim brotherhood coming to power, the group, due  to the  incompetence in accordance with the political and economic conditions, lac...

background: each group or profession has its own discourse. discourses create identity, support institutions and reproduce power relationships. professional identity of iranian nurses, which has recently had the opportunity to represent itself in social arena, needs investigation. this study aimed to make internal aspect of this identity clear. materials and methods: this study was conducted by...

Computational approaches to discourse understanding have a two-part goal: (1) identifying those aspects of discourse understanding that require process-based accounts, and (2) characterizing the processes and data structures they involve. To date, in the area of reference, process-based accounts have been developed for reference via anaphoric pronouns and via definite descriptors. In this paper...

Language impairments in patients with acquired brain injury can have a negative impact on social life as well as on other cognitive domains. Discourse impairments are among the most commonly reported communication deficits among patients with acquired brain damage. Despite advances in the development of diagnostic tools for detecting such impairments, few studies have investigated interventions...

The information overload faced by today’s society poses great challenges to researchers who want to find a relevant piece of information. Automatic summarisation is a field of computational linguistics which can help humans to deal with this information overload by automatically extracting the gist of documents. This thesis attempts to gain insights into the automatic summarisation field from s...

This paper proposes a scheme of annotating spoken dialogues with discourse level information in terms of the discourse segment. Dialogues are coded with topic break index (TBI), which indicates the degree of topic break between the discourse segments, instead of marking a beginning and an ending utterances of the segment. TBI is graded by two levels, 1 and 2, and TBI=2 indicates a large change ...

In recent proposals for the crucial internal structure of the framing Contextual Component within Functional Discourse Grammar (Hengeveld & Mackenzie 2006, 2008) — for example by Rijkhoff (2008:88-97) and Connolly (2007) —, what is here called text is considered as equivalent to discourse within an account of the NP (Rijkhoff) or of context (Connolly). The article purports to show that this con...