Thematisationis one of the troublesome areas both for translation purposes from or into English and also for learning EFL. The main reason for the problem lies in the fact that usually different languages structure thematisation in different ways. Therefore, the present research is an attempt to investigate contrastively: experiential (topical), interpersonal and textual themes in a sample of A...

Agents may be decomposed roughly into two main parts: the body and the mind. The body performs the animation. It may be 2D, 3D, cartoon-like, realistic... It may be based on MPEG-4 standard; it may follow H-Anim specification; its animation may come from motion capture, dynamic system or key-frames. The mind is responsible for the reasoning, the planning, the perception of the world it is place...

This paper reports results from a program that produces high quality animation of facial expressions and head movements as automatically as possible in conjunction with meaning-based speech synthesis, including spoken intonation. The goal of the research is as much to test and define our theories of the formal semantics for such gestures, as to produce convincing animation. Towards this end we ...

Most linguists concerned with cohesion have focused on the linear relations between sentences. This study is an attempt to extend the notion of cohesion beyond the sentence level, by viewing it as a requirement of the text for connectedness between segments larger than a sentence, such as paragraphs or whole chapters. Of the various concatenation devices listed in Danes( 1974), the most element...

This study will examine the textual equivalence of construction Theme and Rheme in subtitle film “Nyawur”, Purbalingga Myth, (Purbalingga (L1) – Arabic (L2)). The data this were taken from short Myth “Nyawur” (sowing salt hope that rain would stop) VIU. Films related to these myths use subtitles Arabic. Some films local languages ​​that contain mythical terms. formulation first problem is how t...

Building Coherence and Cohesion by Maite Taboada presents a detailed account of selected aspects of the discourse of scheduling dialogs, which are conversations between two people trying to arrange a meeting. These dialogs, which had been recorded in a laboratory as part of the JANUS project, were held in English and in Spanish, totaling 1380 conversations (881 in English and 499 in Spanish). O...

Gesture and speech are linked in time and meaning. The linkage is limited to the lexico-semantic integration windows of theme-rheme pairs, which by itself already indicates that the temporal synchrony of speech and gesture is more flexible than previously thought. While we know that listeners do perceive both hand and mouth movements (e.g. Gullberg & Kita 2009; Vatakis et al. 2008), audiovisual...

Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is used to define the theme of a text and to generate summaries automatically. The theme information – the already known information-in a text can be represented as a vector in semantic space; the text provides new information about this theme, potentially modifying and expanding the semantic space itself. Vectors can similarly represent subsections of a text. LSA...