This study investigates how a group of advanced-low level American undergraduate students constructs their voice as they learn to write Chinese argumentative essays in an intensive study-abroad program. We collected students’ written essays as well as the sample essays used by the instructor to teach Chinese argumentative writing. We analyzed students’ representation of voice in their essays an...

Argumentative text has been analyzed both theoretically and computationally in terms of argumentative structure that consists of argument components (e.g., claims, premises) and their argumentative relations (e.g., support, attack). Less emphasis has been placed on analyzing the semantic types of argument components. We propose a two-tiered annotation scheme to label claims and premises and the...

Processes that govern the interpretation of conditional statements by lay reasoners are considered a key-issue by nearly all reasoning psychologists. An argumentative approach to interpretation is outlined, based on the idea that one has to retrieve the intention of the speaker to interpret a statement, and an argumentative based typology of conditionals is offered. Some empirical support to th...

Recent security concerns related to future embedded systems make enforcement of security requirements one of the most critical phases when designing such systems. This paper introduces an approach for efficient enforcement of security requirements based on argumentative logic, especially reasoning about activation or deactivation of different security mechanisms under certain functional and non...

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This paper uses the Theory of Enunciative Operations and suggests new concepts for a linguistic analysis of ‘pragmatic’ effects such as the construction, through the use of grammatical markers, and connectives in particular, of indirect meaning, and argumentative force. Defining a three-term relation, the coordinator but is considered here as a counter-subordinator which both creates an argumen...

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt die Spezifik verschwörungstheoretischer Erzählungen in den Blick. Insbesondere Auseinandersetzung mit Begriffen ›Erzählung‹ und ›Topos‹ sowie im Anschluss an interdisziplinäre Forschungsansätze zu Verschwörungstheorien wird herausgearbeitet, dass grundsätzlich argumentativ aufgebaut sind. Am Beispiel des Videos »Gates kapert Deutschland!« von Ken Je...

This paper presents a procedure to generate judgment determiners, e.g., many, few. Although such determiners carry very little objective information , they are extensively used in everyday language. The paper presents a precise characterization of a class of such determiners using three semantic tests. A conceptual representation for sets is then derived from this characterization which can ser...

Argumentation theory is an interdisciplinary field studying how conclusions can be reached through logical reasoning. The notion of argument is completely general, including for example legal arguments, scientific arguments, and political arguments. Computational argumentation theory is studied in the context of artificial intelligence, and a number of computational argumentation frameworks hav...