Linguistic Analysis and Learning of Dialogical Speech in Literary Texts

The article deals with the issue of linguistic analysis of dialogue speech used in literary texts and in the teaching process in the field of dialogues. During the training and teaching process, the research clarifies the elements that determine the dialogue, clarifies the semantic features of the dialogue participants' replicas. In the general picture, the types of sentences are looked at during teaching, and the purposes of using words are studied. In the training, the issue of the author's speech is considered as one of the aspects that distinguish the dialogues of the literary text and the dialogues of the spoken speech. Dialogue, as the main, primary form of communication, is a dynamic structure defined primarily by its communicative essence. Artistic dialogue, which is a part of the world view created by the writer, as a secondary form of communication, becomes an important means of realizing the aesthetic function, the specificity of which is determined by the individuality of the author. In the article, issues such as linguistic analysis and study of dialogical speech in literary texts during the teaching process are presented using comparative and descriptive methods

University Students' General Cultural and Professional Competences Development through Foreign Language Acquisition

The article deals with the process of development

Hearing Beyond the Veil: Benjy Compson and the Acousmatic Experience

The purpose of this project is to examine the perceptive systems and listening practices of Benjy Compson, the first narrator in William Faulkner\u27s The Sound and the Fury, through the lens of acousmatic theory. I will consider Faulkner \u27s writing and Pierre Schaeffer\u27s theories of sound as critical analogs for one another, in that our engagement with acousmatics opens channels of investigation into sound and aurality in the Benjy section that wouldn\u27t be available otherwise, and vice versa. My main goal is to prove that 1) Benjy\u27s consciousness; 2) Faulkner\u27s structuring of the first section of the novel; and 3) the reader\u27s sonic relationship with Benjy\u27s world are all constructed upon the idea of acousmatic reduction. This investigation will then give way to larger questions about how these techniques might determine our reading of the rest of the novel, as well as how we might use acousmatics to engage with the auditory dimension of any literary work

Hearing Beyond the Veil: Benjy Compson and the Acousmatic Experience

The purpose of this project is to examine the perceptive systems and listening practices of Benjy Compson, the first narrator in William Faulkner\u27s The Sound and the Fury, through the lens of acousmatic theory. I will consider Faulkner \u27s writing and Pierre Schaeffer\u27s theories of sound as critical analogs for one another, in that our engagement with acousmatics opens channels of investigation into sound and aurality in the Benjy section that wouldn\u27t be available otherwise, and vice versa. My main goal is to prove that 1) Benjy\u27s consciousness; 2) Faulkner\u27s structuring of the first section of the novel; and 3) the reader\u27s sonic relationship with Benjy\u27s world are all constructed upon the idea of acousmatic reduction. This investigation will then give way to larger questions about how these techniques might determine our reading of the rest of the novel, as well as how we might use acousmatics to engage with the auditory dimension of any literary work

Argumentation models and their use in corpus annotation: practice, prospects, and challenges

The study of argumentation is transversal to several research domains, from philosophy to linguistics, from the law to computer science and artificial intelligence. In discourse analysis, several distinct models have been proposed to harness argumentation, each with a different focus or aim. To analyze the use of argumentation in natural language, several corpora annotation efforts have been carried out, with a more or less explicit grounding on one of such theoretical argumentation models. In fact, given the recent growing interest in argument mining applications, argument-annotated corpora are crucial to train machine learning models in a supervised way. However, the proliferation of such corpora has led to a wide disparity in the granularity of the argument annotations employed. In this paper, we review the most relevant theoretical argumentation models, after which we survey argument annotation projects closely following those theoretical models. We also highlight the main simplifications that are often introduced in practice. Furthermore, we glimpse other annotation efforts that are not so theoretically grounded but instead follow a shallower approach. It turns out that most argument annotation projects make their own assumptions and simplifications, both in terms of the textual genre they focus on and in terms of adapting the adopted theoretical argumentation model for their own agenda. Issues of compatibility among argument-annotated corpora are discussed by looking at the problem from a syntactical, semantic, and practical perspective. Finally, we discuss current and prospective applications of models that take advantage of argument-annotated corpora

Intelligenсe architectonics methodology: international language training of students

The intelligence architectonics methodology refers to personification principles model focused on creating the conditions for widening boundaries of language potential of a student in terms of intercultural communication based on emotional balance and comfort as well as intellectual capacity and ability development via varied activities in all stages of the human speech communication process within the “chain” of educational programs – at school, university, and at In-service institutions for specialists based on recurrent education. Given the intricacy of the dynamic communication process and its fundamental importance in human intercultural communication, this survey is intended to provide a comprehensive model of speech dynamics priority for addressing the following issues – how to consider the cultural paradigm that reads “from observation to generalization and replication through cooperation”. Special emphasis is on the social significance of language and cultural mission of educational organizations in the aspect of modeling the corpus of life-based integrative communicative situations in the security education and information space. In this regard the main principles of language education via teaching intercultural communication are in need of thorough investigation of the analysis-synthesis activities within the dynamic intellect and culture development

Statistical language modelling of dialogue material in the British national corpus.

Statistical language modelling may not only be used to uncover the patterns which underlie the composition of utterances and texts, but also to build practical language processing technology. Contemporary language applications in automatic speech recognition, sentence interpretation and even machine translation exploit statistical models of language. Spoken dialogue systems, where a human user interacts with a machine via a speech interface in order to get information, make bookings, complaints, etc., are example of such systems which are now technologically feasible. The majority of statistical language modelling studies to date have concentrated on written text material (or read versions thereof). However, it is well-known that dialogue is significantly different from written text in its lexical content and sentence structure. Furthermore, there are expected to be significant logical, thematic and lexical connections between successive turns within a dialogue, but "turns" are not generally meaningful in written text. There is therefore a need for statistical language modeling studies to be performed on dialogue, particularly with a longer-term aim to using such models in human-machine dialogue interfaces. In this thesis, I describe the studies I have carried out on statistically modelling the dialogue material within the British National Corpus (BNC) - a very large corpus of modern British English compiled during the 1990s. This thesis presents a general introductory survey of the field of automatic speech recognition. This is followed by a general introduction to some standard techniques of statistical language modelling which will be employed later in the thesis. The structure of dialogue is discussed using some perspectives from linguistic theory, and reviews some previous approaches (not necessarily statistical) to modelling dialogue. Then a qualitative description is given of the BNC and the dialogue data within it, together with some descriptive statistics relating to it and results from constructing simple trigram language models for both dialogue and text data. The main part of the thesis describes experiments on the application of statistical language models based on word caches, word "trigger" pairs, and turn clustering to the dialogue data. Several different approaches are used for each type of model. An analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of these techniques is then presented. The results of the experiments lead to a better understanding of how statistical language modelling might be applied to dialogue for the benefit of future language technologies

The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva

This work considers Karl Rahner’s theology of the person as hearer through a critical engagement with Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist notion of the speaking subject. This offers an experimental exploration of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to ideas of relationality, and with a particular interest in the possibility of dialogue with post-structuralist ideas. From separate disciplines, with different tools and to different effects, Rahner and Kristeva reject the modernist cast of the human self. They demonstrate a common desire to explore subjectivity as a notion that has been problematised. In examining the person as hearer and the speaking subject together we discover a surprising number of areas of coherence as well as those of fundamental divergence. To this end we consider our theorisits’ pre-supposed arenas for human subjectivity, their epistemologies, and the importance each gives to language and otherness. We also examine how they relate intra- and inter-relationality. For Kristeva this involves a consideration of notions of the M/Other, the semiotic and the stranger in society. With Rahner we consider the social Trinity, the self-alienation of symbolism and the concept of neighbour-love. We suggest here that Rahner both pre-empts aspects of current theological interest in subjectivity and provides important resources that are especially useful in relating theology to post-structuralist notions

Involving the playwright

Das Phänomen Adaption befasst sich laut Genette mit einem ursprünglichen Text oder Hypotext, der in einen Hypertext, also eine veränderte Version des zu Grunde liegenden Materials, transformiert wird. Eine Adaption muss sich also vom ursprünglichen Werk distanzieren, um als solche anerkannt zu werden. Die Art und Weise dieser Distanzierung ist es jedoch, die genauer untersucht werden muss. Auch wenn der Originaltext im Kontext der Adaption den neuen Gegebenheiten angepasst wird, handelt es sich beim Adaptionsprozess nicht notwendigerweise um eine kritische Distanzierung vom ursprünglichen Werk oder dessen Schöpfer. Vielmehr kann sich eine Adaption durchaus dem Originalkontext oder -autor annähern, indem Inhalt und Form des Textes zwar adaptiert, der Stil aber gleichzeitig reproduziert wird. Diese stilistische Imitation ist es, die die Analysegrundlage der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit darstellt und im Begriff des Pastiche ihre Definition findet. Die Technik des genreübergreifenden Pastiches wurde im Kontext der jüngsten filmischen Adaptionen zweier Stücke Noël Cowards zum Einsatz gebracht. Sowohl Stephen Elliotts Easy Virtue (2008) als auch Eric Styles Relative Values (2000) weisen stilistische Merkmale auf, die zweifellos auf den Meister Noël Coward zurückzuführen sind, aber nicht oder nur zu einem geringeren Ausmaß in den Originalstücken vertreten sind und daher nicht als in der Adaption begründet verstanden werden können. Durch das genreübergreifende Pastiche wurde der Esprit des Künstlers in neuere Versionen seiner Werke integriert. Dadurch wird ein Gesamtkunstwerk geschaffen, das der Vielseitigkeit Cowards in jeglicher Hinsicht gerecht wird – und das geschieht in raffinierterer Art und Weise, als es durch eine einfache Adaption seiner Werke jemals möglich gewesen wäre

Automatic extraction of agendas for action from news coverage of violent conflict

Words can make people act. Indeed, a simple phrase ‘Will you, please, open the window?’ can cause a person to do so. However, does this still hold, if the request is communicated indirectly via mass media and addresses a large group of people? Different disciplines have approached this problem from different angles, showing that there is indeed a connection between what is being called for in media and what people do. This dissertation, being an interdisciplinary work, bridges different perspectives on the problem and explains how collective mobilisation happens, using the novel term ‘agenda for action’. It also shows how agendas for action can be extracted from text in automated fashion using computational linguistics and machine learning. To demonstrate the potential of agenda for action, the analysis of The NYT and The Guardian coverage of chemical weapons crises in Syria in 2013 is performed. Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya has always been interested in applied and computational linguistics. Pursuing this interest, she joined FP7 EU-INFOCORE project in 2014, where she was responsible for automated content analysis. Katsiaryna’s work on the project resulted in a PhD thesis, which she successfully defended at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2019. Currently, she is working as a product owner in the field of text and data analysis