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Author : Sandrine Zufferey,Liesbeth Degand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108832991
Provides a cutting-edge yet accessible introduction to connectives and discourse relations, with examples from a range of languages.
Author : Agnès Celle,Ruth Huart
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254044
This set of eleven articles, by linguists from four different European countries and a variety of theoretical backgrounds, takes a new look at the discourse functions of a number of English connectives, from simple coordinators (and, but) to phrases of varying complexity (after all, the fact is that). Using authentic spoken and written data from varied sources, the authors explore the ways in which current uses of connectives result from the interaction of syntax, semantics and prosody, both over time and through diversity of discourse situations. Most adopt an integrative approach in which speaker-listener or writer-reader relationships are viewed as part and parcel of the linguistic properties of each marker. Because it combines functional, generative and enunciative approaches into a coherent whole with a common explanatory aim, this book will be of interest to linguists, corpus-linguists and all those who investigate the semantics-pragmatics interface.
Author : Helmut Gruber,Gisela Redeker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269232
Over the past four decades, discourse coherence has been studied from linguistic, psycholinguistic, computational, and applied perspectives. This volume identifies current issues and under-researched topics in the pragmatics of discourse coherence. Nine studies from various disciplines address the realization and signalling of coherence relations in various genres and languages, their acquisition and use by first- and second-language learners and university students, the relationship between coherence relations and genre-specific discourse structure, and extensions of the coherence paradigm to multimodal discourse and visual art. This collection will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, applied linguistics, psychology, communication, and multimodal semiotics.
Author : Steve Oswald,Thierry Herman,Jérôme Jacquin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319739724
This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first, necessary, descriptive stance provided by current literature on the topic. Each chapter provides an original take illuminating one or more of the following three issues: the range of linguistic resources language users draw on as they argue; how cognitive processes of meaning construction may influence argumentative practices; and which discursive devices can be used to fulfil a number of argumentative goals. The volume includes theoretical and empirical or applied stances, providing the reader both with state-of-the-art reflections on the relationship between argumentation and language, and with concrete examples of how this relationship plays out in naturally occurring argumentative practices, such as classroom interaction, and political, parliamentary or journalistic discourse. This is a very original, timely and welcome contribution to the study of argumentation conducted with the tools of the language sciences. The collection of papers relevantly tackles key linguistic, discursive and cognitive aspects of argumentative practices whose treatment is underrepresented in mainstream argumentation studies by offering new and exciting linguistically-grounded theoretical accounts. As such, the volume testifies both to the vigour of the linguistic current within the discipline and to the high standards of scholarly commitment and quality that the younger generation is pushing forward. Without question, this book marks an important milestone in the relationships between linguistics and argumentation theory. Christian Plantin, Professor Emeritus
Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351819398
Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.
Author : Yunfang Wu,Jia-Fei Hong,Qi Su
Publisher : Springer
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319735733
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017. The 48 full papers and 5 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: lexical semantics; applications of natural language processing; lexical resources; and corpus linguistics.
Author : Tony McEnery
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748677382
This book demonstrates the advantage of a corpus based approach to Arabic, and presents an overview of current research on the Arabic language within corpus linguistics. Dealing not only with modern standard Arabic, the book also considers classical and colloquial forms.
Author : Sandra Kuebler,Heike Zinsmeister
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441119803
Linguistically annotated corpora are becoming a central part of the corpus linguistics field. One of their main strengths is the level of searchability they offer, but with the annotation come problems of the initial complexity of queries and query tools. This book gives a full, pedagogic account of this burgeoning field. Beginning with an overview of corpus linguistics, its prerequisites and goals, the book then introduces linguistically annotated corpora. It explores the different levels of linguistic annotation, including morphological, parts of speech, syntactic, semantic and discourse-level, as well as advantages and challenges for such annotations. It covers the main annotated corpora for English, the Penn Treebank, the International Corpus of English, and OntoNotes, as well as a wide range of corpora for other languages. In its third part, search strategies required for different types of data are explored. All chapters are accompanied by exercises and by sections on further reading.
Author : Maria-Josep Cuenca,Liesbeth Degand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110790351
The aim of this volume is to bring together researchers interested in investigating the role that Discourse Markers play in language production and comprehension from an experimental or corpus-based perspective. In any kind of human communication, Discourse Markers are part of the game. This omnipresence informs us of a crucial inherent aspect of human language. Yet, as a linguistic category, Discourse Markers remain underdetermined. To gain deeper insight into this complex linguistic category, more systematic work is needed on the production and on the interpretation of Discourse Markers in a variety of situational settings, resorting to different methodological approaches. The contributions in this volume aim at drawing more attention to the double face of Discourse Markers, namely as signals intentionally used by the speaker to facilitate the addressee’s interpretation of the discourse, but also as potential traces of the speaker’s production difficulties. The combination of experimental and corpus-based approaches and the focus on processing of Discourse Markers in both production and comprehension makes this volume a unique contribution in answering the question why we use Discourse Markers in certain situations, but also when we do not.
Author : Osmar Zaiane,Sandra Zilles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642384578
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2012, held in Regina, SK, Canada, in May 2013. The 17 regular papers and 15 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 initial submissions and are accompanied by 8 papers from the Graduate Student Symposium that were selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover a variety of topics within AI, such as: information extraction, knowledge representation, search, text mining, social networks, temporal associations.
Author : Valandis Bardzokas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275011
The book explores finely-grained distinctions in causal meaning, mostly from a relevance-theoretic perspective. To increase the challenge of this double task, i.e. a thorough as well as satisfactory account of cause and a detailed assessment of the theoretical model employed to this end, the current study involves an investigation carried out by way of contrasting the prototypical causal exponents of Modern Greek subordination, i.e. epeiδi and γiati. In addition, this objective is achieved in the methodological framework of contrasting a range of contextual applications of the two connectives against their translated versions in English, realizable by means of because. Despite first impressions, a closer observation of the wide range of applications of these markers in the discourse of coherence relations illustrates divergences in their distribution, which, in turn, are taken to highlight differing aspects of causal interpretation. The proposal for the relevance-theoretic model emanates from a reaction to an array of problems undermining traditional tenets of pragmatic theory originating with Grice’s stance, but is also made in response to the common practice in pragmatic research (since its origin) to pay low regard for the contribution of typical causal markers to debates aiming at the determination of the distinction that has been instrumental to issues of cognition and pragmatic interpretation, i.e. propositional vs. non-propositional meaning.
Author : Alexander Clark,Chris Fox,Shalom Lappin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118448670
This comprehensive reference work provides an overview of the concepts, methodologies, and applications in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Features contributions by the top researchers in the field, reflecting the work that is driving the discipline forward Includes an introduction to the major theoretical issues in these fields, as well as the central engineering applications that the work has produced Presents the major developments in an accessible way, explaining the close connection between scientific understanding of the computational properties of natural language and the creation of effective language technologies Serves as an invaluable state-of-the-art reference source for computational linguists and software engineers developing NLP applications in industrial research and development labs of software companies
Author : Duc Nghia Pham,Thanaruk Theeramunkong,Guido Governatori,Fenrong Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030893637
This three-volume set, LNAI 13031, LNAI 13032, and LNAI 13033 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2021, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in November 2021.The 93 full papers and 28 short papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 382 submissions. PRICAI covers a wide range of topics in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning and scheduling, computer vision, distributed artificial intelligence, search methodologies, etc. Part II includes two thematic blocks: Natural Language Processing, followed by Neural Networks and Deep Learning.
Author : Vadim Ermolayev,David Esteban,Vitaliy Yakovyna,Heinrich C. Mayr,Grygoriy Zholtkevych,Mykola Nikitchenko,Aleksander Spivakovsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031208348
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, ICTERI 2021, held in Kherson, Ukraine, during September 28–October 2, 2021. The 12 full papers were included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: The Fundamentals of ICT; Natural Language Processing for the Ukrainian Language; The Applications of Novel ICT; and ICT in Teaching and Learning.
Author : Anton Benz,Manfred Stede,Peter Kühnlein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273383
The analysis of discourse is probably one of the most complex problems of linguistics. It can be approached from many different directions, involving a large variety of different methods. This volume unites psycholinguistic studies, investigations of logical and computational models of discourse, corpus studies, and linguistic case studies of language-specific devices. This variety of approaches reflects the complexity of discourse production and understanding, and it also reflects the necessity of understanding the complex interplay of diverse parameters which influence these processes. The growing importance of corpus-based and experimental approaches to discourse analysis is duly reflected in this volume. Most of the chapters make use of them in one or the other form. This collection of articles grew out of the third installment of the Constraints in Discourse conferences, and will be of interest to researchers from linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
