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INTRODUCTION. The correlation of the terms “text units” and “discourse units” is currently opaque due to numerous approaches to defining text units and ambiguous decisions regarding discursive ones. The aim is to identify the features of the correlation of structural units of text and discourse and to establish the specifics of the rhetorical relations of Purpose at the element node level of discourse.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research is conducted on the basis of contemporary mass media material through an unselected sampling from interviews with Russian political leaders using the methodology of the theory of rhetorical structures, general philological argumentation, as well as conversation and discourse analysis.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. A structural-semantic dependence is established when identifying the correlation of text units with the purpose semantics and discursive units organized according to the principle of rhetorical relations of the purpose; the specificity of the rhetorical connections of Purpose as relations of the subject type, an asymmetric structure, characterized by a complete paradigm of the signs of polarity and direction is revealed.CONCLUSION. The study has prospects for further study of global structures of natural discourse, as well as practical significance in the context of computational linguistics in the development of algorithms for creating texts using artificial intelligence.
INTRODUCTION. The correlation of the terms “text units” and “discourse units” is currently opaque due to numerous approaches to defining text units and ambiguous decisions regarding discursive ones. The aim is to identify the features of the correlation of structural units of text and discourse and to establish the specifics of the rhetorical relations of Purpose at the element node level of discourse.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research is conducted on the basis of contemporary mass media material through an unselected sampling from interviews with Russian political leaders using the methodology of the theory of rhetorical structures, general philological argumentation, as well as conversation and discourse analysis.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. A structural-semantic dependence is established when identifying the correlation of text units with the purpose semantics and discursive units organized according to the principle of rhetorical relations of the purpose; the specificity of the rhetorical connections of Purpose as relations of the subject type, an asymmetric structure, characterized by a complete paradigm of the signs of polarity and direction is revealed.CONCLUSION. The study has prospects for further study of global structures of natural discourse, as well as practical significance in the context of computational linguistics in the development of algorithms for creating texts using artificial intelligence.
The study explores the effects of graphological and semantic foregrounding on speech and gaze behavior in textual information construal of subjects with higher and lower impulsivity. Eye movements of sixteen participants were recorded as they read drama texts with interdiscourse switching (semantic foregrounding), with features of typeface distinct from the surrounding text (graphological foregrounding). Discourse modification patterns were analyzed and processed in several steps: specification of participant/object/action/event/perspective modification, parametric annotation of participants’ discourse responses, contrastive analysis of modification parameter activity and parameter synchronized activity. Significant distinctions were found in eye movement parameters (gaze count and initial fixation duration) in subjects with higher and lower impulsivity when reading parts of text with graphological foregrounding. Impulsive subjects tended to visit the areas more often with longer initial fixations than reflective subjects, which is explained in terms of stimulus-driven attention, associated with bottom-up processes. However, these differences in gaze behavior did not result in pronounced distinctions in discourse responses, which were only slightly mediated by impulsivity/reflectivity.
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