This article is meant as a basis for a semantic annotation manual. The annotation will translate the logical structure of written and spoken speech by a language-independent manner. The basis for this thesis can be found in temporal logic of Mark Steedman and the formalism introduced here elaborates on Patrick Blackburn’s hybrid multimodal logic and Dependency Grammar Logic of Geert-Jan Kruijff...

The UCREL semantic analysis system (USAS) is a software tool for undertaking the automatic semantic analysis of English spoken and written data. This paper describes the software system, and the hierarchical semantic tag set containing 21 major discourse fields and 232 fine-grained semantic field tags. We discuss the manually constructed lexical resources on which the system relies, and the sev...

Although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. In the present study, participants filled out either the Persian or English version of a discourse completion test (DCT). The researchers analyzed collected answers to discover the relationship between impoliteness and power. Furthermore, the researchers compar...

This research examines the service learning activities and written discourse of pre-service teachers from a cohort of 50 young women who were among the first generation in their community to complete a local university education with BA degrees in English language and literature combined with a subsequent teaching diploma to become English teachers. Based on written reports about service projec...

We ooer a preliminary account of the information-based aspects of punctuation marks. We give our initial treatment within the Discourse Representation Theory and its segmented version. We hypothesize that this work will be useful in classifying the informational contributions of punctuation marks and bringing them to bear on the semantic characterization of written discourse.

This study attempted to establish an image of a science writer based on a synthesis of writing theory, models, and research literature on academic writing in science and other disciplines and to contrast this image with an actual prototypical image of scientists as writers of science. The synthesis was used to develop a questionnaire to assess scientists’ writing habits, beliefs, strategies, an...

This study shares the view that reference in discourse is influenced by the distance to prior mentions of the referent in the discourse. Kibrik (1996, 1999) suggested a measurement of rhetorical distance to assess this factor. In this paper we address three complications created by that methodology when applied to a large corpus of written newspaper texts. These problems include: difference bet...

The article focuses on the issues of methodology first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency development. aim this paper is to present results experimental work development and specify achievements in its implementation into educational process at Faculty Foreign Philology Kherson State University. subject our research project as basis for their communication a language. ...