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Economists included knowledge their models to improve their explanatory accuracy. A major step was to describe the production of knowledge as well as its exploitation as an internal part of economic models. Politicians prefer to talk about a new kind of economy so they can sustain the myth of progress. Rather than explain economies using a new model they try to leave economic history intact whi...

A viable model of interactive discourse must explain how interlocutors share conversational control to construct the discourse, and recognize the contributions of others to it. The position that I take in this paper is from a narrower perspective, one in which there is a primary speaker who controls and directs the discourse, but that does so while trying to accommodate the informational needs ...

The goal of the following text is to analyze changes in television advertising banking and automobile sectors, according social context. hypothesis that communication significantly influenced by situational context, causing differences between two sectors. A multimodal discourse analysis used, comparing twenty commercials from sectors 2019 2020, period during which lockdown due COVID-19 took pl...

In this article, we re-examine the oft-assumed link between theories of modernity and “death fortune”. It is often argued that recourse to “fortune” as a legitimate cause events had declined substantially by end seventeenth century, replaced aetiologies based on calculation probabilities inspired techniques new science. Focusing reception Greek historian Hellenistic period, Polybius, in whose H...

In this paper we study, analyse and comment rhetorical figures present in some of most interesting poetry of the first half of the 20 century. These figures are at first traced back to some famous poet of the past and then compared to classical Latin prose. Linguistic theory is then called in to show how they can be represented in syntactic structures and classified as noncanonical structures, ...

We propose an extractive summarization system with a novel non-generative probabilistic framework for speech summarization. One of the most under-utilized features in extractive summarization is rhetorical information -semantically cohesive units that are hidden in spoken documents. We propose Rhetorical-State Hidden Markov Models (RSHMMs) to automatically decode this underlying structure in sp...

Citations in scientific writing fulfil an important role in creating relationships among mutually relevant articles within a research field. These inter-article relationships reinforce the argumentation structure intrinsic to all scientific writing. Therefore, determining the nature of the exact relationship between a citing and cited paper requires an understanding of the rhetorical relations ...