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The Pronominal bu-şu and this-that: Rhetorical Structure Theory
This study presents a contrastive analysis of the pronominal uses of bu and şu and this and that in written academic discourse within the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988; Marcu 2000).
Derya Çokal-Karadaş
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Structure and Sentiment: rhetorical relations in opinative comments in Facebook
The use of social networks has been growing dramatically in recent years. Facebook, for example, recorded an average of 1.47 billion daily active users and 2.23 billion monthly in June 2018 worldwide.
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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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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Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance
Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto +3 more
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A short survey of discourse representation models [PDF]
With the advancement of technology and the wide adoption of ontologies as knowledge representation formats, in the last decade, a handful of models were proposed for the externalization of the rhetoric and argumentation captured within scientific ...
Buckingham Shum, S. +4 more
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Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage [PDF]
Our goal is to identify the features that predict the occurrence and placement of discourse cues in tutorial explanations in order to aid in the automatic generation of explanations.
Di Eugenio, Barbara +2 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic [PDF]
The paper presents a novel approach to explaining word order variation in the early Germanic languages. Initial observations about verb placement as a device marking types of rhetorical relations made on data from Old High German (cf.
Petrova, Svetlana
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Text units with purpose semantics in a discursive perspective
INTRODUCTION. The correlation of the terms “text units” and “discourse units” is currently opaque due to numerous approaches to defining text units and ambiguous decisions regarding discursive ones.
L. V. Voronina
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