the fundamental role of discourse and its positive and negative effects in personal and social interactions is known to everyone. this is why religions and denominations have always relied on discourse, especially when it is beyond the boundaries of personal concerns and by the expansion of its domain, have stressed on the vital position and particular role of discourse in the fate of humanity....

This paper examines the forces driving the pursuit of military production capacity in India, including those behind the Indian nuclear and space programs. We are mainly interested in whether symbolic motivations regularly find expression in the public discourse. We review all articles on the subject of weapons development and production appearing in India Today from May 1977 through December 19...

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5.1 SOME DEFINITIONS...........................................................................................................................................7 5.2 A PUNCTUATED DISCOURSE MODEL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS .............................7 5.3 TIME STRUCTURE OF PUNCTUATED DISCOURSE ..........................................................................................9 5...

In this paper we show that interruptions are important elements in the interactive character of discourse and in the resolution of issues of cognitive uncertainty and planning. By representing discourse graphically, we also show that interruptions are part of the local and global coherence that is brought about through the systematic phrase-to-phrase prosodic patterns of discourse. The specific...

Until recently, referring expression generation (reg) research focused on the task of selecting the semantic content of definite mentions of listener-familiar discourse entities. In the grec research programme we have been interested in a version of the reg problem definition that is (i) grounded within discourse context, (ii) embedded within an application context, and (iii) informed by natura...

We address the problem of learning discourse-level merging strategies within the context of a natural language information extraction system. While we report on work currently in progress, results of preliminary experiments employing classification tree learning, maximum entropy modeling, and clustering methods are described. We also discuss motivations for moving away from supervised methods a...

Following earlier work [3][5][6], this study, based on a corpus of spontaneous dialogue, aims to define melisms as opposed to intonation and to specify not only their forms, but also their meanings and functions. Melisms appear to be directly related to the domain of beliefs, of subjective values and hence of their perlocutory effects. The study shows in particular how melisms, beliefs and moti...