coherence in spoken discourse

... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... occur at the beginning of opening, focusingand framing moves Metastatement is an act occurring in a focusing move, whose function is to state what the discourse is going to be about In other words ... Press, forthcoming Sue Hunston is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Surrey. Her ‘Text in world and world in text’ was published in the Nottingham Linguistic Circular in 1985 and

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2016, 11:44

... kinds of meaning, such as "speaker's meaning", "contextual meaning" (Yule, 1996, p.3), "meaning in use", and "meaning in context" (Thomas, 1995, p.1) Meaning in ... are to be interpreted (Yule, 1996) Understanding the language in communication requires our ability to interpret meaning in context 2.1.3.3 Meaning In the field of pragmatics, meaning is a ... action in its sociocultural context Kasper (2001, p.2) indicates that communicative actions include not only using speech acts (such as apologizing, Trang 17complaining, complimenting, and requesting)

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2023, 18:09

... Since, in this study, we focus only on learning the REG policy, the dialogue management is coded in the form of a finite state machine In this dialogue task, the system provides two kinds of instructions ... state of the conversation In our study, in addition to maintaining an overall di-alogue state, the system maintains a user model U M s,t which records the initial domain knowl-edge of the user ... referring to (R i ) and its type (T i) are used However, the above model simulates the process of interpreting and resolving the expression and identifying the domain entity of interest in the in-struction

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... skill including listening, reading, speaking and writing skill Writing is an important productive skill in language learning It can objectively reflect students’competence of thinking, organizing ... Summary 31 CHAPTER 4: MAJOR FINDINGS AND SUGGESTIONS 32 4.1 Major findings 32 4.1.1 Findings from analyzing students’ writing assignments 32 4.1.2 Findings from analyzing the survey questionnaire ... review involving in theoretical background of writing, paragraph and coherence 2.1 Theoretical background of writing 2.1.1 Definition of writing There are various definitions of writing by

Ngày tải lên: 07/06/2014, 16:13

... regarding the user observed easiness in obtaining the data required to fulfil the complete set of objectives defined in the scenario, as well as the suitability of the interaction rate during ... Natural interaction in spoken dialogue systems Proceedings of the Workshop Ontologies and Multilinguality in User Interfaces... predicting user mental states in spoken dialogue ... Irino T: Analyzing dialogue data for realworld emotional speech classification Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech 2006 – ICSLP)... Spain

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... logarithms in (8) prevent documents with high term fre-quencies from dominating those with low term frefre-quencies In order to obtain the final term weights,g(t, d) is divided by a linear combination ... be easily extended to a ranking by determining not only the doc-ument maximizing p(d |q), but also by compiling a list that contains all documents sorted in descending order with re-spect to their ... and in revised form 30 October 2002 Accessing information in multimedia databases encompasses a wide range of applications in which spoken document retrieval (SDR) plays an important role In SDR,

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... reference markers in the preceding discourse In such cases presuppositions are usually accommodated, but the kind of information they introduce may create certain obstructions in communication, ... will be discussed in section2.3 1.1 Presuppositions in the binding theory From the vantage point of their logical properties presuppositions are inferences induced by certain linguistic expressions ... heterogeneity of spoken discourse makes this problem hard to unravel The following section will investigate whether the reasons for intentional introduction of new information in therapeutic discourse

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 02:20

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Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:32

... on nominalization as grammatical metaphor in political discourse poses an interesting challenge for us Secondly, an insight into the nature and the functions of nominalization in political discourse ... make an inquiry into the nature of nominalization in English and Vietnamese in general This study also points out the functions of nominalization in political discourse and therefore explains why ... attempt to explore nominalization in English and Vietnamese in theory and in a specific political discourse in English and one in Vietnamese The analysis of nominalization gives some indication of beliefs

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... of pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing as natural, recursive steps in the creation of any written text In line with genre-based approaches to the teaching of writing (White ... suggestions made in tutorials were also handed in We insisted on this since they would give us invaluable insights into the process behind the writing of the texts Despite these quite demanding conditions, ... approach, the assessment in writing in English 3 has been, until now, through a timed essay In short, we have been teaching one thing and testing another The extended writing project In an effort to resolve

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 11:05

... construction of a particular kind of discourse In this, we find a similar vein of thought within social constructionist approaches to discourse As a preliminary definition of discourse, social constructionist ... government in India exploded five nuclear bombs, Hindus and Muslims in Singapore reacted in different ways When Pakistan then exploded six bombs in response, the emotions of Hindus and Muslims in Singapore ... packaging of social, economic and political issues in terms that suggest the potential of these issues erupting into veritable crises In the literature, studies in the discourse of crisis pertaining

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 08:00

... reproducing or to reshaping existing social relations Language practices are capable of maintaining and reproducing patterns of domination and subordination in society, but CD analysts, using emancipatory ... broadening the gap of inequality in discourse without realizing that they are doing so Nevertheless, CDA’s function in raising people’s awareness in language encounters is not at all an easy job in ... but “race” in discourse is inclined to refer to ideology and social structure rather than ethnic origins Racist ideology inherently exists in society like a hierarchical web interconnecting complicated

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2017, 11:15

... role in word-level matching in which it both learns the vector similarity andreserves information about the two vectors The new input xt contains a combinationinformation of the original input ... 30% amount of in-domaintraining data More importantly, the proposed model demonstrates state-of-the-artperformance regarding BLEU and ERR scores when training with all of the in-domain data.The ... 282.3 NLG PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION19 In this study, we used four different original NLG domains: finding a restaurant, finding a hotel, buying a laptop, and buying a television All these datasets

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2019, 22:55

... successful interaction between the reader and the text Following Johnson‟s point of view, many linguists also defines coherence in terms of reader-based features In summary, coherence includes two main ... writing coherence 1.1.2 Approaches to coherence Coherence is an abstract concept It is, therefore, defined differently by different linguists In this section, three aspects of coherence including ... ideas presented in writing In particular, the study of „topic‟ in discourse becomes a promising branch of research in examining the semantic relation of essays Prague School linguists such as

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2020, 23:09

... America‟s leading technology companies and academic institutions are joining Vietnamese universities to strengthen training in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine Because ... phasing out leaded gasoline in Vietnam, maintaining a clean water supply, saving coral reefs and tropical forests We want to bolster our efforts on disaster relief and prevention, including our ... studying with each other; innovating and doing business with each other; standing up for our security, and promoting human rights and protecting our planet with each other I hope you think back

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2020, 21:26

... main characteristics of English legal discourse will be examined to set the base forfinding out the realization of nominalization in this legal discourse in the next part 3.2 English legal discourse ... legaldiscourse This special genre has attracted more and more scholars including linguists Inthe following part, the main linguistic features of English legal discourse will besummarized in terms ... for understanding its realization in legaldiscourse Trang 19CHAPTER 2 NOMINALIZATION2.1 Introduction Nominalization is a prevalent linguistic phenomenon in English, especially in writtenEnglish

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2020, 14:50

... old for studying  Pattern 3: prepositional verb + ing-clause We were thinking of bringing our video camera b Verbs controlling ing-clauses The most common verbs controlling ing-clauses are ... legal discourse This special genre has attracted more and more scholars including linguists In the following part, the main linguistic features of English legal discourse will be summarized in terms ... for understanding its realization in legal discourse Trang 18CHAPTER 2 NOMINALIZATION 2.1 Introduction Nominalization is a prevalent linguistic phenomenon in English, especially in written English

Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2020, 08:27

... knowledge, access to intended meaning), (2) tran sfer of m eaning (relaying lexical meaning, relaying gram m atical meaning, relaying rhetorical meaning, including implied and inferable meaning, for potential ... eaning so th a t “w hat m ight be construed as a combination of interdependent clauses in the spoken mode is reconstrued as edifice of words an d phrases in writing” (Halliday & M a rtin ... not ab stract entities, but hum an beings, and as such leave their fingerprints on th eir finished translation products Since in practice no two fingerprints are exactly alike, there are “no

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2021, 00:38

... Training Dual Latent Variable Model 63 Training Variational Language Generator 63 Training Variational CNN-DCNN Model 64 Joint Training Dual VAE Model 64 Joint Cross Training ... domains, italic = slots can take don’t care value, bold = binary slots. In this study, we used four different original NLG domains: finding a restaurant, finding ahotel, buying a laptop, and buying ... Refinement cell infiltering input information, the Adjustment cell in controlling the feature vector (see Examplesin Figure 3.7), and the Output cell in calculating the additional output These indicate

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2021, 20:09

... Training Dual Latent Variable Model 63 Training Variational Language Generator 63 Training Variational CNN-DCNN Model 64 Joint Training Dual VAE Model 64 Joint Cross Training ... domains, italic = slots can take don’t care value, bold = binary slots. In this study, we used four different original NLG domains: finding a restaurant, finding ahotel, buying a laptop, and buying ... Refinement cell infiltering input information, the Adjustment cell in controlling the feature vector (see Examplesin Figure 3.7), and the Output cell in calculating the additional output These indicate

Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2021, 09:45