We argue in this paper that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to be discourse connectives signalling discourse relations between adjacent discourse units are instead anaphors. We do this by (i) demonstrating their behavioral similarity with more common anaphors (pronouns and definite NPs); (ii) presenting a general framework for understanding anaphora into which they nicely fit; (ii...

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Discourse connectives can show sense ambiguities, in that they can signal more than one possible rhetorical relation. The aim of this study is discover how to disambiguate such discourse connectives using a statistical model. Six discourse connectives (after, as soon as, before, once, since and while) which show ambiguities in the sdrt (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher & Lascari...

Understanding discourse requires the comprehension of individual words and sentences, as well as integration across sentence representations to form a coherent understanding of the discourse as a whole. The processes that achieve this coherence involve a dynamic interplay between mental rep resentations built on the current sentence, the prior discourse context, and the comprehender ’ s backgro...

In this paper we obtain a unique common xed point theorem for sixweakly compatible mappings in G-metric spaces.

this study sought to investigate identity construction in english language learners using critical discourse analysis (cda). to that end, a number of western cultural points extracted from interchange series were integrated into a questionnaire, asking learners to display their own feelings, behaviors, actions and reactions to the points raised. the questionnaire-generated data coupled with int...