Stylistic devices in news, as related to topic recognition
Résumé
It has been rediscovered that stylistic devices are used mainly to convey meaning at text level (Fahnestock, 1999). Meanwhile, cognitive stylistics and rhetoric developed in many directions, including rich studies in literature. Some authors put emphasis on perceptive constraints and relative contrast (Kwiatowska, 1997, 1998). Some stressed the relation between audience and issues reported in the press (Hamilton et al., 2007). We propose here to relate different trends to study ordinary written material, news, but also to address scale in whole texts to develop cognitive rhetoric. This work deals with stylistic features that are linked to cognitive processes, specifically topic recognition in news articles. The challenge was triggered by expectations in computational linguistics and fueled an attempt to express objective properties to detect topic continuity in texts, irrespective of language, but following genre laws (Lejeune et al., 2010)...
Domaines
Traitement du texte et du document
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