Research Studies in Second Language Writing and in Contrastive Rhetoric [PDF]
The major aim of this article is to review studies of second language writing. The first part deals mainly with the process of writing in the second and first languages. The second part concerns contrastive rhetoric.
Cahyono, B. Y. (Bambang)
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Student Labour and Training in Digital Humanities [PDF]
This article critiques the rhetoric of openness, accessibility and collaboration that features largely in digital humanities literature by examining the status of student labour, training, and funding within the discipline. The authors argue that the use
Deanna Fong+5 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Examining the rhetorical capacities of neural language models [PDF]
Recently, neural language models (LMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities in generating high-quality discourse. While many recent papers have analyzed the syntactic aspects encoded in LMs, there has been no analysis to date of the inter-sentential, rhetorical knowledge. In this paper, we propose a method that quantitatively evaluates the rhetorical
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Psychoses of Epilepsy: Unravelling the Phenotypic and Genotypic Features
Objectives We analyzed the genotypic and phenotypic features of patients with psychosis of epilepsy (POE). Methods Patients with POE recruited to an epilepsy genetics research program underwent phenotyping and genetic analysis. The latter included screening for rare pathogenic variants in epilepsy genes, and polygenic risk score (PRS) calculation for ...
Genevieve Rayner+4 more
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Using argumentation schemes to find motives and intentions of a rational agent
Because motives and intentions are internal, and not directly observable by another agent, it has always been a problem to find a pathway of reasoning linking them to externally observable evidence. This paper proposes an argumentation-based method
Douglas Walton
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End-to-End Argument Mining over Varying Rhetorical Structures [PDF]
Rhetorical Structure Theory implies no single discourse interpretation of a text, and the limitations of RST parsers further exacerbate inconsistent parsing of similar structures. Therefore, it is important to take into account that the same argumentative structure can be found in semantically similar texts with varying rhetorical structures.
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Sustaining the “frozen footprints” of scholarly communication through open citations
Abstract This review examines the role of open citations in fostering transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility in scholarly communication. Through a critical synthesis of diverse sources—articles, proceedings, presentations, datasets, and blog posts—it explores the motivations behind citing, the evolving meanings of citations, and key ...
Zehra Taşkın
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Deliberative Quality and Expertise: Uses of Evidence in Citizens’ Juries on Wind Farms
When addressing socio-scientific wicked problems, there is a need to negotiate across and through multiple modes of evidence, particularly technical expertise and local knowledge.
Jennifer Roberts+3 more
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Quantifying Latent Moral Foundations in Twitter Narratives: The Case of the Syrian White Helmets Misinformation [PDF]
For years, many studies employed sentiment analysis to understand the reasoning behind people's choices and feelings, their communication styles, and the communities which they belong to. We argue that gaining more in-depth insight into moral dimensions coupled with sentiment analysis can potentially provide superior results.
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