Abstract in every research paper has always been functioning as an attention-grabber which can encourage readers to keep reading the research or to dissuade it. Although abstracts are believed to play an important role in distributing the research findings, few studies have been done to evaluate the rhetorical organization of thesis abstracts, especially in the field of Teaching English as a Fo...

Linguistic creativity requires a marriage of form and content in which each works together to convey our meanings with concision, resonance and wit. Though form clearly influences and shapes our content, the most deft formal trickery cannot compensate for a lack of real insight. Before computers can be truly creative with language, we must first imbue them with the ability to formulate meanings...

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 ...

rhetorical figures, which are frequently applied in advertisements, can add literary flavor to the texts, gratify audiences’ aesthetic needs, and deepen their impression. in advertisement translation, it is very common that the rhetorical figures applied in the original text are replaced with new ones in the translation. this research focuses on rhetorical figures’ function of enhancing audienc...

RASTA (Rhetorical Structure Theory Analyzer), a system for automatic discourse analysis, reliably, identifies rhetorical relations present m written discourse by examining information available in syntactic and logical form analyses. Since there is a many-to-many relationship between rhetorical relations and elements of linguistic form, RASTA identifies relations by the convergence of a number ...

This paper briefly outlines observa.tions fi'om texts made with respect to rhetorical relations and communicative goals. Then it will be shown how these ol)servations have been encoded into knowledge resources which are part of an integrated architecture for the gelmration of multimedia output. Both communicative goals and rhetorical relations are virtual constructs surface signals hint at thei...

Knowledge about the rhetorical structure of a text is useful for automatic abstraction. We are interested in the automatic extraction of rhetorical units from the source text, units such as Problem Statement, Conclusions and Results. We want to use such extracts to generate high-compression abstracts of scientiic articles. In this paper, we present an extension of Kupiec, Pedersen and Chen's (1...

Rhetorical biset functors can be defined for any family of finite groups that is closed under subquotients up to isomorphism. The rhetorical p-biset functors almost coincide with the rational p-biset functors. We show that, over a field with characteristic zero, the rhetorical biset functors are semisimple and, furthermore, they admit a character theory involving primitive characters of automor...

Argumentation schemes for presumptive reasoning are used to analyze students’ small group discourse during the evaluation of a science investigation project. Seventeen triads of middle school students participated in a structured 45-60 minute long interview. The broad set argumentation schemes employed by students, such as argument from sign and argument from consequences, suggests that the aut...

In his The Rhetoric of Reaction, Albert Hirschman (1991) argues that each major advance in the development of citizenship in Western democracies has provoked three common forms of reactionary rhetoric by opponents of reform which, in turn, have been met by their three “progressive counterparts” advanced by advocates of reform. In this short note, we apply Hirschman’s taxonomies of rhetoric to t...