Coherent Text Research Articles

A Multimodal Intersemiotic Translation Study of Book Covers of Translated Versions of The Three-Body Problems

As The Three-Body Problem is translated into languages overseas, the diversified features that the cover design of the translated version of The Three-Body Problem are worth exploring. The covers of a series of Chinese science fiction with different characteristics construct various narrative styles through different symbols and present the uniqueness and readability of the content of this Chinese science fiction. From the perspective of multi-modality in social semiotics, respecting the representational meaning, the cover design of these translations can be divided into two categories: low-image and high-image, and at the same time, it also presents visual continuum features; In terms of interpersonal meaning, these versions display visual patterns; Concerning compositional meaning, the designers of these covers convey the information values from different countries through layout design and visual salience. The cover design organizes meaningful elements into coherent text and creates new meanings through specific structures. Although some misunderstandings exist in some translated versions of The Three-Body Problem, most of the translated versions originally restore the original grand story about the future of the Earth, the only home to humans, reflecting reality and humanism in a unique manner with Chinese characteristics.

Cognitive Operations in Process of Secondary Text Production in Fanfiction Genre

The question of text perception in a foreign language is considered. Cognitive operations to build a text projection used by recipients who are non-native speakers, as well as their ways to objectify the former in their own secondary texts of the fanfiction genre are presented and described. The article is relevant due to the need to research the processes of reception and production of a coherent text both in native and foreign languages, and to create a cognitive model of the text projection building process. Particular attention is paid to the correlations between the strategies and tactics of forming a projection of a text in a foreign language by the recipient with the types of cognitive operation used to interpret new knowledge (preservation, modeling, transfiguration). Data are given on the implementation of cognitive operations on all levels of the perceived text (macro-, schematic, stylistic level). Definitions are provided for the specific tactics used by recipients (non-native speakers) in the process of creating their own texts in a foreign language on various levels (plot preservation tactics, tropes imitation tactics, keyword transplantation tactics, etc.). The results of the study can be applied both in the field of language sciences (psycholinguistics, linguistics) and in the field of foreign language teaching methods to find ways to effectively develop reading and writing skills in language learners.

Paragraph-oriented methods for determining the coherence and thematic unity of scientific and technical texts

The subject of the article is to determine the degree of scientific and technical text connectedness using statistical calculations. The aim of the scientific investigation is to study the possibilities of using the coherence of fluctuations in the relative frequencies of keywords in paragraphs to determine the lexical coherence and thematic unity of scientific and technical texts. The task is to develop a method for determining the thematic unity of a text at the set of paragraphs level; to develop a method for determining the coherence of a text at the set of paragraphs level; and to test the developed methods on a collection of documents. The methods used are statistical analysis and computational experiment methods. The following results were obtained. The study has shown that it is advisable to cluster paragraphs as points in the keyword space to determine the degree of scientific and technical text coherence at the level of paragraphs. This opens up the possibility of calculating the degree of thematic unity within the clusters and in the entire text. The degree of text fragments and the whole text coherence is determined by analyzing the sequence of paragraph numbers in the clusters. This makes it possible to formally determine the quality of the material presented in a scientific and technical article or in a textbook. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of the study is as follows: there was refined on the method for determination of the connectedness degree (coherence and thematic unity) of scientific and technical texts at the level of paragraphs by implementation of paragraphs clustering in the keywords space, using the calculation of thematic unity degree inside the clusters and in the overall text, as well as through analysis of paragraphs numbers sequence in clusters in order to determine the degree of text fragments and the overall text coherence. The methods are language-independent, based on clear hypotheses, and complement each other. The methods have an adjusting element that can be used to adapt it to different thematic and stylistic areas. It has been experimentally proved that the proposed methods for the determination of scientific and technical text connectedness are efficient and can provide the framework for information technology of content analysis of scientific and technical texts. The proposed methods do not use WEB resources for syntactic and semantic analysis, providing the possibility to use them autonomously.

A content-controlled monolingual comparable corpus approach to comparing learner and proficient argumentative writing

This mixed-methods study approaches the differences between learner and proficient argumentative writing by building a content-controlled monolingual comparable corpus (CCMCC) that contains learner-teacher sample pairs of the same semantic content. Twenty-seven learner samples were collected from 27 Chinese university students who each wrote on one topic from the second writing task of IELTS Academic. To generate content-controlled teacher samples, an experienced teacher revised or rewrote each learner sample after confirming the ideas learners intended to express through individual and face-to-face communication with each learner. Then, a native speaker checked the language of the teacher samples. In data analysis, each learner-teacher sample pair was analyzed using Coh-Metrix to generate statistics in 45 indices under text length, syntax, lexicon, and cohesion, after which a shortlist of indices of both statistically and practically significant differences was identified. Qualitatively, the researchers identified the differences through side-by-side comparisons of sample pairs and coded the important patterns in the differences to explore their underlying reasons. This approach generated different quantitative results from previous corpus-based comparative writing studies, such as the ineffectiveness of cohesion indices to distinguish learner and proficient writing. Qualitative analysis further revealed noteworthy findings including the lack of concision in learner writing and learners’ unfamiliarity with using prepositional phrases to express actions. The advantages, limitations and implications of this approach are discussed.

Cohesion In the Texts of Arabic Textbooks Written by Indonesian Authors

Arabiyyah Li al-Hayât (ALH) is a book about learning Arabic as a second language written by non-native speakers. The State Islamic University of Malang uses this book as an Arabic learning book. This paper analyses the cohesion in the reading texts (nushush Qira‘ah) used for learning Arabic reading skills in the book. This library research uses a descriptive-qualitative approach. This study found that reading texts have several kinds of cohesion markers, both grammatical and lexical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion marker includes the use of pronoun personas and the use of conjunction markers. Lexical cohesion marker includes the use of repetition, that is, the repetition of words. The researchers also found reading texts in ALH books that lacked a relationship of greatness in them.
 Keywords: cohesion, Arabic, reading skill, non-native speaker

FactGen: Faithful Text Generation by Factuality-aware Pre-training and Contrastive Ranking Fine-tuning

Conditional text generation is supposed to generate a fluent and coherent target text that is faithful to the source text. Although pre-trained models have achieved promising results, they still suffer from the crucial factuality problem. To deal with this issue, we propose a factuality-aware pretraining-finetuning framework named FactGen, which fully considers factuality during two training stages. Specifically, at the pre-training stage, we utilize a natural language inference model to construct target texts that are entailed by the source texts, resulting in a more factually consistent pre-training objective. Then, during the fine-tuning stage, we further introduce a contrastive ranking loss to encourage the model to generate factually consistent text with higher probability. Extensive experiments on three conditional text generation tasks demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of our training framework.

Prognosis of exploration on Chat GPT with artificial intelligence ethics

Natural language processing innovations in the past few decades have made it feasible to synthesis and comprehend coherent text in a variety of ways, turning theoretical techniques into practical implementations. Both report summarizing software and sectors like content writers have been significantly impacted by the extensive Language-model. A huge language model, however, could show evidence of social prejudice, giving moral as well as environmental hazards from negligence, according to observations. Therefore, it is necessary to develop comprehensive guidelines for responsible LLM (Large Language Models). Despite the fact that numerous empirical investigations show that sophisticated large language models has very few ethical difficulties, there isn't a thorough investigation and consumers study of the legality of present large language model use. We use a qualitative study method on OpenAI's ChatGPT3 to solution-focus the real-world ethical risks in current large language models in order to further guide ongoing efforts on responsibly constructing ethical large language models. We carefully review ChatGPT3 from the four perspectives of bias and robustness. According to our stated opinions, we objectively benchmark ChatGPT3 on a number of sample datasets. In this work, it was found that a substantial fraction of principled problems are not solved by the current benchmarks; therefore new case examples were provided to support this. Additionally discussed were the importance of the findings regarding ChatGPT3's AI ethics, potential problems in the future, and helpful design considerations for big language models. This study may provide some guidance for future investigations into and mitigation of the ethical risks offered by technology in large Language Models applications.

Evaluation of Automatic Legal Text Summarization Techniques for Greek Case Law

The increasing amount of legal information available online is overwhelming for both citizens and legal professionals, making it difficult and time-consuming to find relevant information and keep up with the latest legal developments. Automatic text summarization techniques can be highly beneficial as they save time, reduce costs, and lessen the cognitive load of legal professionals. However, applying these techniques to legal documents poses several challenges due to the complexity of legal documents and the lack of needed resources, especially in linguistically under-resourced languages, such as the Greek language. In this paper, we address automatic summarization of Greek legal documents. A major challenge in this area is the lack of suitable datasets in the Greek language. In response, we developed a new metadata-rich dataset consisting of selected judgments from the Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece, alongside their reference summaries and category tags, tailored for the purpose of automated legal document summarization. We also adopted several state-of-the-art methods for abstractive and extractive summarization and conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the methods using both human and automatic metrics. Our results: (i) revealed that, while extractive methods exhibit average performance, abstractive methods generate moderately fluent and coherent text, but they tend to receive low scores in relevance and consistency metrics; (ii) indicated the need for metrics that capture better a legal document summary’s coherence, relevance, and consistency; (iii) demonstrated that fine-tuning BERT models on a specific upstream task can significantly improve the model’s performance.

DETERMINING THE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASS OF A WORD DURING THE AUTOMATIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

The article considers a mandatory component of the linguistic provision of any system of automatic natural language processing, i.e. automatic morphological analysis, the tasks of which include: determining for each text unit its place in the morphological system of the corresponding language; identification of word forms of the lexeme. As a result of automatic morphological analysis, each word form of the text is assigned a tag for the part of speech and the meaning of the grammatical categories (gender, number, case, aspect, tense, person, etc.). The nature of this information, its volume, and the methods used to establish morphological information depend on the purpose of the research, within which automatic analysis is carried out with the focus on the nature of the analyzed texts. Morphological analysis is present at all stages of text analysis, because neither morphemic, nor syntactic, nor semantic analysis can be performed without parts-of-speech tagging. With automatic syntactic analysis, only if lexical-grammatical and grammatical information is available for each word form, it is possible to syntactically bind word forms in a sentence. Morphological features of text units further become a tool for researching the relationship between vocabulary and grammar and the use in speech; between paradigmatics (in the aspect of consideration of case forms of declinable words) and syntagmatics (in the aspect of linear relationships of words, text coherence).
 The article examines the difficulties that prevent unifying the process of tagging text units, namely lexical-grammatical homonymy, ambiguity of grammatical forms, polysemy. The study considers approaches to resolving morphological ambiguity based on the context analysis of the ambiguous word, which can be divided into statistical and rule-based. Rules can be compiled manually or derived from marked-up corpora. Statistical methods are based on quantitative indicators in large labelled corpora. Morphological ambiguity resolution methods are usually applied after primary tagging, which is usually done using dictionaries.
 The article also provides a morphemic analysis algorithm for automatic morphological analysis.

Text integration processes in children with Childhood Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes

Although Childhood Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes (CECTS) is considered a ‘benign’ form of epilepsy, word reading, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension difficulties have been reported. We examined two core skills for text comprehension, coherence monitoring and inference generation, in children with CECTS and compared performance with typically developing controls. Children with CECTS (n = 23; 9 females; mean age 9 y 0 m) and the comparison group (n = 38; 14 females; mean age 9 y 1 m) completed two tasks. For coherence monitoring they heard 24 narrative texts, 16 containing two inconsistent sentences, and responded to a yes/no question to assess identification of the inconsistency after each text; for inference making they heard 16 texts designed to elicit a target inference by integrating information in two sentences and responded to a yes/no question to assess generation of the inference. In both tasks there was a near condition, in which critical sentences were adjacent, and a far condition in which these sentences were separated by filler sentences. Accuracy to the question and the processing time for critical sentences in the text were measured. We used listening comprehension tasks to control for variation in word reading ability. Mixed effects analyses for each task revealed that children with CECTS show comparable levels of accuracy to age-matched peers in these tasks tapping two core text integration skills: detection of inconsistencies and generation of inferences. However, they take longer to process texts indicating a likely source of their listening and reading comprehension difficulties.

Syntactic Deviation in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati Poetry With Reference to English Syntax A Functional Study

This research is an attempt to study aspects of syntactic deviation in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati with reference to English. It reviews this phenomenon from an extra-linguistic viewpoint. It adopts a functional approach depending on the stipulates of systemic Functional Grammar as developed by M.A.K. Halliday and others adopting this approach. Within related perspective, fairly’s taxonomy (1975) has been chosen to analyze the types of syntactic deviation because it has been found suitable and relevant to describe this phenomenon. The research hypothesizes that syntactic deviation is pervasive in Arabic poetry, in general and in Abdul-Wahhab Al-Bayyati Poetry in specific, and can be analyzed in the light of systemic Functional Grammar. It also hypothesize that syntactic deviation intensifies cohesion in poetic texts and does not disrupt or dismantle links between the structures of the clause. The devices tackled in this research are: ellipsis, repetition, functional shift, and thematization.

Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?

Artificial intelligence: Friend or foe?

Type of themes and thematic progression patterns in low achiever’s descriptive writings

The Low Achiever’s writing is frequently categorized as the low coherent text due to the quality of their writings based on the rubric used at school. Hence, the focus in this study is to analyze the Types of Theme and Thematic Progression patterns found in Low Achiever’s Descriptive Writings with descriptive-qualitative research design. The objective is to observe the coherency quality of low achiever’s based on the analysis of Theme and Thematic Progression. The steps are selecting two low achiever’s descriptive texts based on the school’s rubric, dividing them to clauses, analyzing both the Theme and the Thematic progression, then providing the results of the analysis. The result shows that all types of Themes and Thematic Progressions are found in both writings. The Unmarked Topical Theme and Constant Theme Patterns are most frequently used. The conclusion is that Low Achiever’s Descriptive Writings cannot be considered as a low-coherent text based on School’s rubric only, Theme and Thematic Progression analysis is suggested to be conducted for extra observation and evaluation despite of the easy and common themes many constant types used to start the clauses in both of their writings. Keywords: descriptive text, low achiever’s writings systemic functional linguistics, theme, and thematic progression

Lexical and Stylistic Derivation in Mass Media Discourse

The article deals with the mass media discourse that covers different economic, social, and political aspects of everyday life and such global issues as sustainable development goals. The purpose of the research is to study lexical and stylistic derivation in the mass media discourse. The latter is regarded as a written, monological, informative political discourse indicating society’s language culture. The article identifies the ways of word-building employed in the analyzed discourse and suggests the classification of derived units. Besides, the stylistic properties of the mass media discourse are pointed out. The meanings and functions of the secondary nomination units as units of stylistic derivation (metaphors, metonymies, periphrases, epithets, irony) in the context are described. Renomination by similarity, contiguity and contrast is mentioned. Figures of combination (oxymoron, antithesis, simile) are analyzed in the article. The stylistic potential of phraseology is also considered. The work relies on the recent linguistic research of discourse as a communicative-pragmatic pattern of speech behavior, a complex combination of the process and result, and a coherent text with pragmatic, sociocultural, psychological, and extralinguistic factors. The conclusions are based on English and Ukrainian media, their linguistic and expressive markers.

A Systemic Functional Linguistic Analysis of Clauses Relationship in Luke Gospel Text, Janji Baru Using Kupang Malay

This paper reports on a functional linguistics study of clauses relationship in which it is included as textual meta function of meaning. This textual metafunction is on the level of lexicogrammar. Semantic sequence of figures is realized by a clause complexes series. This paper focused on relationship types between clauses, interdependency and logico-semantic relationship. Data were taken from A Bible, New Testament using Kupang Malay called Janji Baru, especially in Luke of Gospel text. The analysis revealed that parataxis used in text covered coordinate conjunctions such as, deng ’and’, ma, ‘but’, jadi/ko ‘so, for’, ais ju ‘then’. The hypotaxis used subordinate conjunctions, such as, kalo ‘if’’ tagal ‘because/since’, te ‘cause’. The use of parataxis and hypotaxis indicates that semantic sequence is coherence in which conjunctions used in text are usually repeated. It is the same as the use of logico-semantic, such as expansion and projection. The expansion consisted of elaboration, extension, and enhancement. The projection consisted of locution and idea that related to phenomena of a higher order of experience. The idea used verbal process, such as, kastau bilang ‘tell/say’, manyao bilang, ’answer’, tanya bilang ‘ask’, etc. This fact indicates that the idea stated was stressed by using serial verbs or usually a verb was ended by other verb’ This fact indicates to attract listeners’ attention. The locution used mental process, such as, rasa ‘feel’ ‘inga’ ‘remember’. Thus, it can be stated that the use of interdependency and logico-semantic relation was aimed to keep the semantic sequence and text coherence.

“CONTRASTIVE TEXT LINGUISTICS” — AN ASSOCIATION OF ROMANCE SLAVISTS, SLAVIC ROMANISTS AND GENERAL LINGUISTS

The paper describes the history of creation and development of the international group of linguists conducting research in contrastive text linguistics Groupe d’études en linguistique textuelle contrastive (GeLiTeС). Its coordination center and site are located at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Th e languages of the texts under study are Romanсe and Slavic. Th e goals of this scientific association are outlined, as well as its composition, its shared concept of language allowing for the variety of theoretical frameworks and methods, the general fi eld and the main topics of research: contrastive analysis of discourse practices, discourse functions of grammatical categories, connectors and other means of text cohesion. The paper also presents key activities of GeLiTeC, including regular conferences and joint publications. The References list all the collections of papers published by GeLiTeC, including special issues of journals.

The Application of Thematic Progression to Enhance Coherence in Students’ Analytical Exposition Texts

Thematic progression is the way in which the theme of the clause repeats a meaning from the previous theme or rheme. It also refers to how the information flows in the text. This study aimed to analyze the application of thematic progression to enhance coherence in the analytical exposition texts written by the eleventh graders of SMA Kesatrian 2 Semarang in the academic year 2021/2022. This study used a mixed methods design which was embedded with a case study with the data from the result of students’ texts, observation sheet, and interviews. This study analysed 10 students’ analytical exposition texts. The findings showed that the most type of thematic progression applied was a linear theme reaching 22 times in occurrence, followed by 21 constant theme patterns, and 9 multiple theme patterns. These results showed that a linear theme occurred in the students’ analytical exposition text mostly because it elaborated the writers’ ideas or arguments. Further, thematic progression made the text organize well. This made the texts coherent, and the students’ scores improved from pre-test with mean of 74.50 to post-test with mean of 89.00. Then, the value of significance (2-tailed) was 0.000 which meant that the improvement was statistically significant. These results are expected to give a contribution to other researchers in conducting research in various text types. Furthermore, the results are useful for students to improve their writing and for teachers to improve the way they teach writing.

Recalling Quranic Meanings and Textual Harmony in the Poem ``You taught me life'' and its Impact on Guiding the Behavior of Society

The research is concerned with the effect of Quranic meanings in directing society's behaviors through poetry, which in turn is an effective tool in purifying and refining the human soul. Whether in a direct way to adopt community issues or in a suggestive manner, and in an unconscious activity that attempts to mislead the reader about the direct intent of the poetic significance. Because of the value of poetry and its impact on man and his taste, ancient and modern, the Quranic meanings were embodied in the poem ``You taught me life'' by the poet ``Mohammed Mustafa Hamam Al-Masry.'' He is one of the first generations of poets in the modern era. The poem is well-known for its representation and recitation. However, this is due to the agility of its language and the follow-up of the Qur'anic meanings, which came spontaneously and smoothly, evoked by the ideas mixed with the sincerity of passion of the committed Arab poet. Moreover, this led to a phenomenon that contributed to the production of a coherent text, but we did not find any interest in analyzing this poem and identifying the secrets of creativity, and its deep values. Therefore, we will explore and analyze these aesthetic secrets and show how they were employed to build society because of the connotations they carried inspired by the Holy Qur'an, which is a method for building society. We will first clarify the terms used in the research, identify the writer of the poem and his literary product, and move on to the analytical techniques of recalling meanings. The Qur'anic implications, the aesthetics of quotation, and its value in achieving creativity and then revealing the empowerment of these meanings in the mind of the reader.
 Keywords: recall, Quranic meanings, harmony, taught me life

Textual Coherence in Al-Saadi's Interpretations From Sūrah Al-Ahqāf to An-Najm: A Rhetorical Study in Light of Text-Linguistic (Textology)

This research highlights the coherence tools in Al-Saadi's interpretations, based on modern textology and thorough investigation of these tools, as well as the method used by Al-Saadi in his interpretation called Tayseer al-Kareem al-Rahman in Tafseer Klam al-Mannan to explore the pattern of meanings in Surah Al-Ahqf to Surah An-Najm. He explores the most widely mentioned tools and relates them to contemporary textology. This study intends to emphasize the coherence techniques utilized by Al-Saadi in his interpretation of the Holy Quran, whether in a single verse or multiple verses. The research also intends to examine the significance of these tools and their function in identifying miraculousness positions in these poems and methods for exploiting them in studying poetic and prose texts. Al-Saadi has made significant contributions to the exploitation of textual coherence methods, which are intimately related to investigating the Holy Quran's meaning and linguistic and rhetorical miracles. Text cohesion and coherence are the essential components of rhetorical coherence. The researcher suggests conducting additional research on the works of earlier and contemporary interpreters to investigate textual coherence tools and how they might be utilized to elucidate semantic meaning.

Metaphor and Conflict /Métaphore et conflit ed. by Paola Paissa et al.

Reviewed by: Metaphor and Conflict /Métaphore et conflit ed. by Paola Paissa et al. A. Kate Miller Paissa, Paola, Michelangelo Conoscenti, Ruggero Druette, and Martin Solly, eds. Metaphor and Conflict /Métaphore et conflit. Peter Lang, 2021. ISBN 978-3-0343-4068-7. Pp. 386. The contributions to this edited volume, penned by scholars from universities in France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, are written in English and French, reflecting their origins in a bilingual 2018 workshop of the same name held in Turin as part of a larger Italian Progetti di ricerca di interesse nazionale [research project of national interest] on metaphors. The introduction to the volume (which is the only chapter that appears in both English and French versions) presents the notion underlying the contributions and reflected in the title: The use of metaphor creates a "conflict" in that the literal interpretation of the words used are at odds with real-world facts and knowledge (for example, as two separate chapters note, in Emily Brontë's verse "And winter pours its grief in snow," grief is not a substance that can be poured and winter is not an entity that can carry out the act of pouring). The introduction and the first few theoretically framed chapters (discussing syntax and textual coherence, metaphor and metalanguage, and the argumentative functions and vulnerabilities of metaphors) may present difficulties for nonspecialists. However, subsequent chapters are more accessible, presenting a series of interesting case studies on the use of metaphor in political and media discourse (section 2), and in pedagogical materials and translated literature (section 3). The six chapters that comprise section 2 focus on the discourse surrounding significant recent political events such as Brexit and its aftermath, the 2017 U.S. presidential inauguration, and the Gilets jaunes protests in France. These chapters examine the use of verbal, visual, and multimodal metaphor through various corpora that include social media posts, political speeches, press articles, or editorial cartoons. These case studies offer fascinating analyses with broad appeal to anyone interested in language, politics, social media interaction, current events, satire, and beyond. It should be noted, however, that a widespread interest captured by analyses related to current events will almost certainly be tempered by the passage of time as such events are relegated to the annals of history. Section 3 includes only two chapters, which examine the use of metaphor in, respectively, a video series illustrating basic economic principles (Dr. CAC, which aired on France 5 from 2005-2011) and an Italian translation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Again, these case studies present analyses that would be of interest to a wider range of readers beyond just those working in linguistics. Thus, overall, contributions to these latter sections could easily be read as stand-alone articles; the purported underlying theoretical framework of metaphor and conflict seems somewhat opaque and not essential to benefitting from the analyses presented in many of the volume's contributions. [End Page 249] A. Kate Miller Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Copyright © 2023 American Association of Teachers of French