Dubremetz, M. 2017. Detecting Rhetorical Figures Based on Repetition of Words: Chiasmus, Epanaphora, Epiphora. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 18. 49 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0165-5. This thesis deals with the detection of three rhetorical figures based on repetition of words: chiasmus (“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”), epanaphora (“Poor old European Commiss...

This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future directions. We include ontological models of argument schemes applying Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST); the RhetFig proposal for modeling; the related RetFig Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian (developed by two o...

abstract thematic development refers to the way theme and rheme in the clause are developed. the theory of rhetorical structure can be defined as the strategies that follow specific ways to make writing more persuasive. the present study aimed to examine how iraqi writers maintain cohesion in the text by analyzing the patterns of thematic progression in various rhetorical sections in an online ...

Linguistic annotation provides additional information asserted with a particular purpose in a document or other piece of information. It is widely used in various fields, from computing and bioinformatics, through imaging, to law and linguistics. There is also a clear distinction between what is communicated through the written/spoken natural language and how this is passed on. We are studying ...

We argue, reason, cajole, and persuade — we deploy rhetoric — because we are social animals endowed with a symbolic mode of thought and communication who seek to shape our social environment, to compete, and to cooperate. As rhetoricians, philosophers, and semiologists have regularly noticed, some patterns of argumentation and cajolery are more successful than others. These patterns of usage — ...

We examine the rhetorical strategy of architects in widely available architectural texts, to identify what words are available for use in the cultural register. Our results show that these cultural register texts use distinct but related rhetorics; vocabularies of competency that are revealed through clusters of keywords and which capture institutional logics of business, profession and state. ...

Many essential components of language charted by rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, remain understudied and underrepresented in current Natural Language systems. Our goal is to combine linguistic and rhetorical theories with discourse analysis and machine learning to develop formal models of computational rhetoric that may be usefully applied in real-world Computational Linguistics syst...

â â  this study, which is done in the light of modern research, is a small step in exploring the great heritage of arabic rhetoric. it may be quite appropriate to explore rhetorical techniques in the work of 'abd al- qähä«r al-jurjänä«, particularly because he has been neglected in many pieces of research on rhetoric. this article is an attempt for describing 'abd al- qähä«r’s ap...