In the monograph, the author analyses, in historical perspective, the rection of verbs of thought in selected Slavic languages. The meanings of selected verbs are established on the basis of available lexicographic works, all the complements are analysed and exemplified, semantic and rectional patterns for every verb are determined; based on lexicographic data, the historical stability of patterns and their evolutionary properties are verified. Within every language, valential and rectional properties of the verbs of thinking sensu stricto and the verbs of knowing (semantic sub-fields of the verbs of thought) are compared. The analysis of the rection of selected verbs in a particular Slavic language is accompanied by a comparison of historical rectional properties of individual verbs of thought across different Slavic languages; the comparison is based on the semantic-syntactic characteristics of a particular verb.
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The monograph presents metadiscourse, a pragmatic category comprising those parts of a text which do not contribute to the content of the text itself but play a crucial role in the interpersonal communication between the author and the addressee as well as in the organization of the text. Metadiscourse is examined through an analysis of the use of metadiscoursive elements in Slovene and English academic and popular science writing. The study identifies the factors which shape the conventions of metadiscourse use in the sample of texts analysed.
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Text mining aims at constructing classification models and finding interesting patterns in large text collections. This paper investigates the utility of applying these techniques to media analysis, more specifically to support discourse analysis of news reports about the 2007 Kenyan elections and postelection crisis in local (Kenyan) and Western (British and US) newspapers. It illustrates how text mining methods can assist discourse analysis by finding contrast patterns which provide evidence for ideological differences between local and international press coverage. Our experiments indicate that most significant differences pertain to the interpretive frame of the news events: whereas the newspapers from the UK and the US focus on ethnicity in their coverage, the Kenyan press concentrates on sociopolitical aspects.
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