The purpose of this study was to look at headline writers’ intentions from Tanzanian Nipashe newspapers and classify them in accordance with illocutionary speech acts Taxonomy by Searle (1979). employed a qualitative research approach descriptive design. involved the population 1095 front-page newspaper headlines. A sample 130 headlines chosen each classified according taxonomy Speech Act. Out ...

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) proposes several pilot tasks. In this paper, we focus on the spoken language understanding pilot task, which consists of tagging a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots. We compare different classifiers: the best system obtains 0.52 and 0.67 F1-scores on the test set for speech act recognition for the tourist and the guide respectivel...

Given that the criminal offense of Public Incitement to Violence and Hatred seeks protect public order but also certain groups individuals limit freedom speech, paper provides a comparative legal analysis this through Anglo-Saxon continental law especially refers EU Member States. The analyzes some dogmatic principles explain conditions when can be committed. Especially, development modern tech...

This paper is the final response in a scientific forum examining the impact of ending therapy on speech-language pathologists. The lead paper explored how speech-language pathologists juggle the tensions of coping with real versus ideal endings, of managing the building of close therapeutic relationships which then have to be broken, and of balancing a respect for client autonomy while retainin...

This paper examines the realization of acausal weighting patterns with two-point boundary-value descriptor systems (TPBVDSs). We restrict our attention to the subclass of TPBVDSs which are extendible, i.e., whose input-output weighting pattern can be extended outwards indefinitely, and stationary, so that their weighting pattern is shift-invariant. Then, given an infinite acausal shift-invarian...

This paper introduces the term ‘supervernacular’ as a descriptor for new forms of semiotic codes emerging in the context of technology-driven globalization processes. Supervernaculars are widespread codes used in communities that do not correspond to ‘traditional’ sociolinguistic speech communities, but as deterritorialized and transidiomatic communites that, nonetheless, appear to create a sol...