With the rapid development of information technologies, implementation visual content has become a complementary component social discourse, particularly in media and news sectors. In this respect, it is increasingly important to pay huge attention literacy relevant processing. Sarcasm, one most widely used language choices can easily be part any or article. Sarcastic remarks are for numerous r...

Abstract This paper offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of French Italian wh-in situ questions based on spontaneous spoken data. A pragmatic relying two parameters, propositional activation functions, reveals that the licensing conditions use this structure largely differ in languages. While do not require an activated proposition can introduce discourse-new topic, mostly and, at lea...

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

Abstract In this article we investigate how speakers manage discourse expectations in dialogue by comparing the meaning and use of three Dutch particles, i.e. wel , toch eigenlijk, which all express a contrast between their host utterance discourse-based expectation . The core meanings toch, eigenlijk are formally distinguished on basis two intersubjective parameters: (i) whether particle marks...

Sentences form coherent relations in a discourse without discourse connectives more frequently than with connectives. Senses of these implicit discourse relations that hold between a sentence pair, however, are challenging to infer. Here, we employ Brown cluster pairs to represent discourse relation and incorporate coreference patterns to identify senses of implicit discourse relations in natur...

Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...