Taxonomy of Discourse Signals for RST Relations: A Study in a News Corpus [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada: We have observed that the relationship between two or more textual propositions is not always signaled by prepositions or conjunctions, commonly referred to as Discourse Markers (DMs).
Jackson Wilke da Cruz Souza +2 more
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Expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by causal hypotactic clauses in Brazilian Portuguese=Expressão das relações retóricas de causa, evidência, justificativa e motivação por meio de orações hipotáticas adverbiais causais no português brasileiro [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture, 2012 This paper aims at investigating the expression of cause, evidence, justify and motivation rhetorical relations by means of causal hypotactic clauses in formal oral discourse (university lectures and interviews with academic researchers) in Brazilian ...
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Neural Discourse Structure for Text Categorization
, 2017 We show that discourse structure, as defined by Rhetorical Structure Theory and provided by an existing discourse parser, benefits text categorization.
Ji, Yangfeng, Smith, Noah
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, 2018 The study aims at examining the functions of the discourse marker Kama in the Arabic journalistic discourse in the light of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) proposed by Mann and Thompson (1987).
Asem Ayed Al-Khawaldeh
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.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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Reference items in agricultural articles
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 The structure of connected discourse is considered a topic of primary importance in current linguistic theory and is closely linked with semantic structure and its relation to syntax. However, it was only in 1973 that there was a more positive change in
Vijaya Lekshmi Viswanathan
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Using Rhetorical Structure Theory for Detection of Fake Online Reviews
, 2017 Fake online book reviews, where authors and ‘review factories’ secretly pay writers to review products and services, are an increasing concern for consumer protection regulators worldwide. This study uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to analyze a forensic
Olumide Popoola
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Disciplinary Differences, Rhetorical Resonances: Graduate Writing Groups Beyond the Humanities [PDF]
, 2006 When we first established graduate student writing groups across the curriculum at Ohio University in the summer of 2003, we had several goals and outcomes in mind.
Gradin, Sherrie +2 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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