Researchers interested in anticipatory discourse are, generally speaking, concerned with discourses in or about the future. They investigate how individuals, texts, or utterances project representations of future events, states, or relations. Unlike other areas of applied linguistics, the study of anticipatory discourse is still very much in its infancy. As yet, there is no set tradition or sch...

Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is a highly complex activity and requires the performance and coordination of multiple, simultaneous tasks: analysis and understanding of the discourse in a first language, reformulating linguistic material, storing of intermediate processing steps, and language production in a second language among others. It is, however, an open issue whether persons with experi...

The purpose of the article is to investigate reasons and ways creating secondary nominations in modern Ukrainian medical discourse, find out features use such names different communicative situations. In descriptive, comparative statistical research methods are used. frequency names, namely unofficial substitutes for terms, situation doctor – was investigated by method questionnaires workers. s...

Discourse about the use of animals in biomedical research usually focuses on two issues: its empirical and moral use. The empirical issue asks whether the use of nonhumans in experiments is required in order to get data. The moral issue asks whether the use of nonhumans can be defended as matter of ethical theory. Although the use of animals in research may involve a plausible necessity claim, ...

Children encounter metaphor in all aspects of their daily lives, including the spoken and written discourse of school, and metaphor can be one of the routes through which socio-cultural norms are appropriated. The use of metaphor seems to be a basic human skill, which develops in interaction with developing world knowledge and linguistic skills. Both use of metaphor and the development of metap...

In this paper a formal model of dialogue update in context will be presented which shows how information states can be represented which identify and integrate separate information resources such as utterance events, background resource situations and visual scenes. The proposal uses ideas from dynamic semantics (including discourse representation theory), situation semantics and recent a recen...

The paper proposes a method to automatically design a fuzzy controller for the mobile object following behavior in mobile robotics. The system has been tested in several simulated situations using the Nomad 200 robot software. The proposed approach obtains a knowledge base with a good interpretability in a reduced time, and the designer only has to define the number of membership functions and ...

In this paper, I show how textual structure is recursive in nature; that is, the same rhetorical strategies that are available for constructing the text’s macrostructure are available for constructing its sub-sequences as well, resulting in a hierarchically structured text. The recursive formalism presented can be used by a generation system to vary the amount of detail it presents for the same...

Reasoning about ordinary human situations and activities requires the availability of diverse types of knowledge, including expectations about the probable results of actions and the lexical entailments for many predicates. We describe initial work to acquire such a collection of conditional (if–then) knowledge by exploiting presuppositional discourse patterns (such as ones involving ‘but’, ‘ye...