This article examines the Spanish author's newspaper column in key of basic concepts classical rhetoric as an interdisciplinary science, which at present stage allows to combine "linguistics expressiveness" with consideration linguistic material light communicative-discursive paradigm. The is example "journalism opinions", where thematic diversity, stylistic originality, creativity due figure j...

The implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. One such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...

In this paper, we introduce an approach to the adaptive composition of video documentaries. The adaptation is based on templates that encode rules for the dynamic selection, sequencing and composition of video shots. We introduce a template language to define adaptation rules. Finally, we discuss rhetorical patterns, strategies that we abstracted out during the realization of a museum mobile gu...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...