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Discourse markers with modal functions: A contrastive analysis of "claro" and i...

The modal functions performed by some discourse markers have been the subject of analysis for several languages. This paper analyzes the different values conveyed by the Portuguese discourse marker claro, and takes a contrastive perspective with French, based on monolingual and parallel, written and spoken, corpora, in order to identify discourse markers that are functional equivalents of claro in different con...

CRPC-DB – A Discourse Bank for Portuguese

Question-answers in written texts: an analysis in the context of discourse rela...

Question-answer pairs are typically associated to spoken discourse and to directive speech acts, although they are also found in written texts. We analyse contexts extracted from the CRPC-DB, a written subcorpus annotated with discourse relations in the PDTB-style. We focus on the nature of the question and of the answer in interactional contexts, but also in contexts where a single locutor poses the question a...

O impacto da crise no discurso político dos parceiros sociais portugueses

The crisis impact on the political discourse of Portuguese social partners

This chapter provides a sociological perspective on citizenship at a time of crisis enriched with data analysis techniques from computer engineering and linguistics. We base our research on the assumption that citizenship assumes a political and civic dimension illustrated in an exemplary way through the development achieved and role performed by trade unions and employers’ associations in our societies.

LDM-PT - A Portuguese Lexicon of Discourse Markers

The Lexicon of Discourse Markers (LDM-PT) provides a set of lexical items in Portuguese that have the function of structuring discourse and ensuring textual cohesion and coherence at intrasentential and inter-sentential levels. Each connective is associated to the set of its rhetorical senses, following the PDTB typology.

Some considerations on the use of main verbs to express rhetorical relations

Rhetorical relations are typically expressed by discourse structuring devices that ensure textual cohesion and coherence. Resources such as the PDTB target specifically the annotation of these devices, while describing alternative lexicalizations of such relations (AltLex). Our preparatory work to develop a discourse treebank for Portuguese in the PDTB framework has provided ground for some considerations regar...