This is a thematic study of Harry Potter (1997-2007) concerning the theme alienation. Joanne Rowling British novelist famous for writing her best-known fantasy book series, (1997-2007). argues that employs fantastical elements in to present symbolic and real-life themes summon postcolonial discourse In addition, aims raise role serving Humanity dignity people understanding conflicts among membe...

Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few well-defined syntactic classes. In this paper, we describe how the lexicalized discourse relation annotations of the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) led to the discovery of a wide range of additional expressions, annota...

The paper presents machine translation experiments from English to Czech with a large amount of manually annotated discourse connectives. The gold-standard discourse relation annotation leads to better translation performance in ranges of 4–60% for some ambiguous English connectives and helps to find correct syntactical constructs in Czech for less ambiguous connectives. Automatic scoring confi...

This article analyzes the role of interdiscourse relations in formation emotive component novels fantasy series “Discworld” by Terry Pratchett. Interdiscoursivity is regarded as interaction one-level and multilevel components a discourse within imaginative novels. Interdiscource presuppose elements that are integral parts discourse, namely, subjects communicative situations, facts relating to c...

This article analyzes the role of interdiscourse relations in formation emotive component novels fantasy series “Discworld” by Terry Pratchett. Interdiscoursivity is regarded as interaction one-level and multilevel components a discourse within imaginative novels. Interdiscource presuppose elements that are integral parts discourse, namely, subjects communicative situations, facts relating to c...

Advertising discourse has a number of features related to the specific context in which communication takes place. The addressee is usually sceptical, while addresser uses entire arsenal language make an impact. In this article, we focus on use etiquette formulas interviews. representation cultural code ecolinguistic paradigm particularly diverse speech etiquette. Etiquette (fr. étiquette - lab...

We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil D...

There are two conceivable readings for (1). Either (a) it refers to the party or (b) Peter only disliked the food. Discourse grammars like Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) offer an explanation for this phenomenon. SDRT an extension ofDRT (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) describes a complex propositional structure of Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) connected via discourse relati...

Coherence relations have usually been taken to link clauses and larger units. After arguing that some phrases can be seen as discourse units, a computational account for such phrases is presented that integrates surface-based criteria with inferential ones. This approach can be generalized to treat intra-sentential cue-phrases. Since cue-phrases are not always present, referential relations bet...