In this paper we investigate whether unsupervised models can be used to induce conventional aspects of rhetorical language in scientific writing. We rely on the intuition that the rhetorical language used in a document is general in nature and independent of the document’s topic. We describe a Bayesian latent-variable model that implements this intuition. In two empirical evaluations based on t...

The Text2Dialogue (T2D) system that we are developing allows digital content creators to generate attractive multi-modal dialogues presented by two virtual agents—by simply providing textual information as input. We use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) to decompose text into segments and to identify rhetorical discourse relations between them. These are then “acted out” by two 3D agents using ...

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Written to commemorate the 10th anniversary of rubric “Academic Writing and Research Competences” established by journal’s late editor-in-chief Mikhail Sapunov, paper focuses on origins academic writing traces its development in terms rhetoric. The five stages classical rhetoric are interpreted as key components writing: research, logic, culture, knowledge, language. This approach helps visuali...

Research into visual and multimodal rhetoric has been dominated by social scientific textual perspectives that may not be able to provide documented understandings of how rhetorical objects are actually experienced an audience. In this study, the authors engage in protocol analysis through 10 in-depth interviews asking informants make sense selected political advertisements 2020 US election cam...

A thematic analysis of New Zealand’s historical Speeches from the Throne (10 speeches, 1860-1899) investigated rhetorical strategies used by Governors during colonisation, to mobilise both settler and indigenous people’s participation in British Empire. Identity leadership (Reicher &amp; Hopkins, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1111/0162-895X.00246), augmen...

Placing ourselves within the tradition of dynamic semantic approaches to discourse in natural language Kamp and Reyle (1993), Groenendjik and Stokhof (1991), we investigate here how some of the principles underlying these approaches can be extended to the study of human dialogue, taking over some hypotheses of Asher and Lascarides (1998, 2003). In this perspective, a dialogue is made of segment...

the efficacy of genre-based approach to teaching writing has been regarded as an influential practice in l2 writing pedagogy (hyland, 2007). however, there is still gap between actual structures found in reading materials recommended as textbooks and discourse patterns recommended for l2 writing in efl contexts, the gap which would highlight the problems of genre and rhetorical patterns for tea...

This study scrutinized blogs written by American expatriates in twenty-first-century China. The primary objectives were to explore how China is represented in such blogs and to understand the discursive processes through which the American bloggers utilize the blogging technology to narrate their perceptions of the Chinese realities. Drawing on the postcolonial and discursive perspectives, we h...