Cross-lingual RST Discourse Parsing [PDF]
Discourse parsing is an integral part of understanding information flow and argumentative structure in documents. Most previous research has focused on inducing and evaluating models from the English RST Discourse Treebank.
Braud, Chloé +2 more
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Holistic redemptive pastoral ministry in the fragmented transit hall of existence
The grand narratives have all but gone – what is left are numerous narratives, each addressing a certain aspect of our lives; there is a different narrative for our professional lives, another for our family lives, for our social lives and yet another ...
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
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Practical reasoning in political discourse: The UK government's response to the economic crisis in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report [PDF]
This article focuses on practical reasoning in political discourse and argues for a better integration of argumentation theory with critical discourse analysis (CDA).
Audi, R. +32 more
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Capitalist discourse, subjectivity and Lacanian psychoanalysis [PDF]
This paper studies how subjectivity in capitalist culture can be characterized. Building on Lacan’s later seminars XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX, the author first outlines Lacan’s general discourse theory, which includes four characteristic discourses: the ...
Bianchi +48 more
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MARKETING TECHNIQUES: RHETORICAL STRATEGIES IN CEOs’ LETTERS INTRODUCING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORTS OF THE COMPANIES [PDF]
This paper provides limited but new details on the rhetoric of Chief Executive Officers’ letters to stakeholders. We analyze CEOs’ letters to which introduce Corporate Social Responsibility reports for 2012 of several US large companies.
Anca GÂŢĂ, Michael STOICA
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The handling of nuclear waste is indeed a critical issue in (late-)modern societies. In this article I present some basic features of my discourse analytical approach on nuclear waste.
Annika Sjölander
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How have ethnologists applied discourse theory? This text introduces the special issue of Kulturella Perspektiv called “Discourse ethnology”, in which nine Swedish ethnologists present their work with applying discourse theory.
Sofi Gerber +2 more
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Never the twain shall meet: a critical appraisal of the combination of discourse and psychoanalytic theory in studies of men and masculinity [PDF]
In recent years there has been a number of attempts by different researchers to study men and masculinity using a combination of discourse theory and psychoanalysis.
A. Nayak +57 more
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Problematizing official narratives of HIV and AIDS education in Scotland and Zimbabwe
When human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are framed within an intersectional approach, they have the potential to transform understandings of social justice within the curriculum and education policy and ...
Tarsisio Nyatsanza, Lesley Wood
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Polarization of coalitions in an agent-based model of political discourse [PDF]
Political discourse is the verbal interaction between political actors in a policy domain. This article explains the formation of polarized advocacy or discourse coalitions in this complex phenomenon by presenting a dynamic, stochastic, and discrete ...
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