This study seeks to investigate linguistic, stylistic devices in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel. It aims at describing interpreting lexical categories figures of speech used convey meanings. A mixed-method has been carry out this work. Thus, quantitative method helped collect from whole play, their proportion discussed interpreted on basis qualitative method. As a result, frequency distr...

The article is about putting forward linguistic-communicative aspects of strategic communication and focuses on the importance properly delivering message to audience.  It points fact that messages should be developed so let people feel they are themselves part process linguistic devices such as hyperbole, metaphor, personification, repletion words, rhetorical questions, conversational non...

Lexical cues are linguistic expressions that can signal the presence of a rhetorical relation. However, such cues can be ambiguous as they may signal more than one relation or may not always function as a relation indicator. In this study, we first conduct a corpus-based analysis to derive a set of n-grams as potential lexical cues. These cues are then utilized in graph-based probabilistic mode...

In this paper we describe the linguistic analysis of the rhetorical figure Antimetabole. We extend our analysis to cognitive processes, centering on Image Schemata as a structure of understanding. Representing elements in symmetry as force vectors we define a graphic representation that shows the balancing forces in multi-dimensions based on the Image Schema BALANCE. We also describe an ontolog...

Metaphors used to describe new technologies mediate public understanding of the innovations. Analyzing the linguistic, rhetorical, and affective aspects of these metaphors opens the range of issues available for bioethical scrutiny and increases public accountability. This article shows how such a multidisciplinary approach can be useful by looking at a set of texts about one issue, the use of ...

This paper presents a first-order logic learning approach to determine rhetorical relations between discourse segments. Beyond linguistic cues and lexical information, our approach exploits compositional semantics and segment discourse structure data. We report a statistically significant improvement in classifying relations over attribute-value learning paradigms such as Decision Trees, RIPPER...

In sinmlating a consultant's role, a central capahility of WISBER is reasoning about the eonversants' intentions to determine a communicative action that is likely to achieve progress towards a longterm consultation goal [Gerlach, Horacek 1989]. The mental model of tile agents involved consists of BEI, IEFs, KNOWs, aud WANTs, which are expressed as I)rimitive, time-dependent states. An agent's ...

Co-referential chaining poses a difficult problem for Automatic Summarization (AS) when a text unit that embeds an anaphoric reference is chosen to compose a summary and its antecedent is not. Coherence, in this case, is often severely damaged and so may the degree of informativity be. This article presents an AS proposal that deals with rhetorical and linguistic knowledge to overcome that. A h...

The language register used in academic communities has the special features of density, complexity, and abstractness which are associated with nominalization with which new members of the communities might not be familiar. To explore the possible distance between novice and established members regarding their awareness of this grammatical feature, the present study investigated the employment o...

The manipulative influence of speech is a constant subject debate. Advertising as reflection social reality has potential. Studies the linguistic means that form and enable slogans political advertising are studied in terms sociolinguistics, language dynamics discourse, most scientific sources revealed new conscious manifestation desire to masses. Manipulative discourse considered strategic fie...