We propose a model for knowledge attribution and epistemic evaluation in scientific discourse, consisting of three dimensions with different values: source (author, other, unknown); value (unknown, possible, probable, presumed true) and basis (reasoning, data, other). Based on a literature review, we investigate four linguistic features that mark different types epistemic evaluation (modal auxi...

Based on Baunaz (2011), we distinguish among French wh-words and claim that they are three-way ambiguous: they can involve partitivity, specificity (both are presuppositional) and non-presupposition (where nonpresuppositional means not-specific/not-partitive). In addition to semantic differences, specificity and partitivity are argued to involve different prosody with wh-phrases in-situ. Buildi...

Abstract This article examines how the online discourse of art organisations forges relationships between artworld and fields politics economy. Combining elements Pierre Bourdieu’s field analysis Norman Fairclough’s critical analysis, analyses an elite magazine, e-flux, museum, IMMA, activities discourses, genres, utterances on their about pages. Its results suggest that pages these forge links...

In this paper, we present two new methods for evaluating students’ answerscripts using vague values, where the evaluating marks awarded to the questions in the students’ answerscripts are represented by vague values. The vague mark awarded to each question of a student’s answerscript can be regarded as a vague set, where each element in the universe of discourse belonging to the vague set is re...

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First, I would like to offer thanks to Dr. Mark Stanton for his mentorship over the last 2.5 years. His support and guidance over the course of my undergraduate career has contributed significantly to my development as a researcher and scholar. I am very grateful to the extraordinary group of graduate and undergraduate students of their training in experimental procedures, a...

This work offers experimental support for the hypothesis that some indefinite noun phrases do not only introduce new referents but also equip them with a certain ‘forward-looking potential’ which informs the hearer about the ‘importance’ of the referent in the subsequent discourse. Developing means to empirically account for the intuitions that exist with respect to English this-indefinites, I ...

A method is described by which a rhetoricalstructure tree can be realized by a text structure made up of sections, paragraphs, sentences, vertical lists, and other textual patterns, with discourse connectives added (in the correct positions) to mark rhetorical relations. We show that text-structuring can be formulated as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem, so that all solutions respecting constr...

1. Introduction: The Issue. The use of single letters in displaying patterns, functions, generalizations, and unknowns, dominates mathematical expression, and for that reason, appears in every domain of theoretical and technical discourse employing even the slightest bit of mathematical language. These variables, as they have come to be called, are the very mark of abstract power and precision,...

A method is described by which a rhetorical-structure tree can be realized by a text structure made up of sections, paragraphs, sentences, vertical lists, and other textual patterns, with discourse connectives added (in the correct positions) to mark rhetorical relations. We show that text-structuring can be formulated as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem , so that all solutions respecting cons...