The social context of an agent can have a profound influence upon their decisions and actions, where their attitudes and ideologies frequently change the interpretation given to a specific body of knowledge. However, attitudes and ideologies themselves result from groups of agents as they communicate and respond to information. This paper proposes a geometric model of an agent in context, where...

Learners’ dictionaries aim to give clear indications of meaning, but not all aspects of meaning can be neatly packaged up in definitions – even without the constraints of a restricted defining vocabulary. It is difficult, for example, to deal effectively with connotation and culture-bound meanings; to show evaluations clearly and consistently; or to explain even-handedly the ideological undercu...

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This study investigates how American and Iraqi writers utilize the evaluative resources in newspaper opinion articles (henceforth, op-eds) from a critical discourse analysis perspective. It explores of op-ed pieces draw on to establish their attitudes, create rhetorical effects, serve ideologies influencing readers’ addressees’ feelings attitudes towards certain subject matters. hopes enhance t...

Modern TV or radio news talk-shows include a variety of sequences which comply with specific journalistic patterns, including debates, interviews, reports. The paper deals with automatic chapter generation for TV news talk-shows, according to these different journalistic genres. It is shown that linguistic and speaker-distribution based features can lead to an efficient characterization of thes...

The present study shows that [t] consonants are affected by probabilistic factors in a syllable-timed language as French, and in spontaneous as well as in journalistic speech. Study 1 showed a word bigram frequency effect in spontaneous French, but its exact nature depended on the corpus on which the probabilistic measures were based. Study 2 investigated journalistic speech and showed an effec...

This study examines gendered characteristics in four female Japanese language learners’ discourse practices in a communicative setting, where they interact with native Japanese speaking friends in a JFL context. Focusing on the relationship between gender ideologies and discourse practices, I explore the extent to which learners are aware of gender ideologies in the Japanese community and how t...

since journalistic activities are done as team works with many peopleinvolved as participants, when a journalistic activity does somebody harm orresults in disorder or public damage, locating the agent of the harm, theperson in charge, the responsibility type in terms of the joint-liability in casethat there are more than one person in charge, or other responsibility typesbecomes difficult. in ...

Machine learning techniques have become very popular for a number of text classification tasks, from spam filters to sentiment analysis to topic classification. In this paper, we will apply a number of machine learning techniques to classifying text by the political ideology of the speaker (i.e. Republican or Democrat). This is a potentially useful application of text classification, as when re...