Today, the definition of literature has changed. Walter J. Ong talks about the secondary spoken language that has surfaced as a result of new technical innovations to our writing tools. This also transforms our attitude towards literature and we can see a return to literature based on verbal characteristics. According to Hans Hertel the verbal renaissance reflects a modern man need to come closer to each other and create togetherness. This master thesis adheres to these views and states that Poetry Slam is a manifestation of these theories. It also argues that Poetry Slam can not only be viewed upon as a literary movement. Besides providing literary teaching practices for large quantities of individuals, performing Poetry Slam also facilitates personal development. The master thesis is an interview based study, which aims to ascertain the importance of Poetry Slam as literature and its effect on the identity defining processes of those participating in Poetry Slam contests. The foundation for the essay’s line of questioning is based on the literary theories of Pierre Bourdieu. It also incorporates the theories of identity creation in a modern day society by Thomas Ziehe. The subjects interviewed have a thorough understanding on how to assess verbal art forms. It is also a common understanding that poetry is a wider art form than literature. Despite this, there is a positive interpretation and evaluation of the literature in question. Several of the subjects supplying the underpinning information firmly believes that participation in Poetry Slam sessions will further their carriers as poets. This consequently leads to a conflict between their goals and the aim and purpose of Poetry Slam. / Uppsatsnivå: D

This study examined incidental receptive and productive vocabulary gains within conversation-class interactions. Eleven Mexican learners of English attended four videotaped conversation lessons where 40 target words were incorporated in different types of exposure. Stimulated recall interviews with students highlighted the effect of cognates, learners' access to passive vocabulary, and use of their vocabulary knowledge in learning related words. Posttests revealed a correlation between frequency and receptive/productive gains. Mean scores showed that words mentioned with synonyms were learned most often, followed by task-essential words and last those mentioned without explanation. A two-way ANCOVA revealed main effects for cognates, and a statistical interaction between cognate status and types of exposure. A statistical correlation was found between receptive and productive gains. Aptitude scores correlated with productive gains but not with receptive gains. The results provide implications for ESL teachers who consider incidental learning of vocabulary within their conversation lessons.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:27:07Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 fatori_mj_me_arafcl.pdf: 377330 bytes, checksum: 173994023adecc343d271ede7a2a8428 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente do indicativo é um dos tempos verbais mais empregados na língua portuguesa falada. Na medida em que é utilizado para expressar tanto o presente como o passado e o futuro, pode-se dizer que se trata do tempo mais versátil de nossa língua. No entanto, há poucos estudos acerca de seu emprego. Tendo em vista tal fato, resolvemos desenvolver esta pesquisa, que teve por objetivo principal analisar, num corpus constituído de textos orais, especificamente de entrevistas com enfoque em história de vida, os valores semânticos assumidos pelo presente do indicativo, bem como verificar a relação que se estabelece entre esse tempo verbal e os tipos de verbo (ação, processo, ação-processo e estado), os argumentos de primeiro grau (agente, paciente, instrumental, causativo, objetivo, locativo, experimentador), que se apresentam na função de sujeito e a pessoa (1ª, 2ª, 3ª) em que este se realiza. Em virtude do alto índice de ocorrência dos pretéritos perfeito e imperfeito do indicativo nas entrevistas, verificamos também a relação estabelecida entre esses dois tempos verbais e os tipos de verbo, de sujeito e de pessoa, com o intuito de podermos comparar os resultados com os do presente do indicativo. Como embasamento teórico para nossa discussão, foram utilizadas as pesquisas de Weinrich (1974) e de Corôa (1985). / The present of the indicative is one of the most useful tenses in spoken Portuguese language. Used to express present, past and future, the present of the indicative is the most versatile tense of our language. However, there are few studies about its use. Because of that, we decided to development this research, in order to analyze, in interviews with focus on past, the semantic values that the present of the indicative assumes. We also checked the relation between this tense and the kind of verb, kind of first-degree argument (that acts as subject) and kind of person used with it. As the past tenses of the indicative were also much used in the interviews, we decided to check the relation between them and the kind of verb kind of first-degree argument and kind of person, in order to establish a comparison with the present of the indicative. As theoretical basis for the analysis, we used the researches to Weinrich (1974) And Corôa (1985).

In addition to the ED-EC framework, this thesis proposes a discriminative lattice rescoring (DLR) algorithm to facilitate the investigation of the extensibility of the framework. The DLR method recasts a discriminative n-gram model as a pseudo-conventional n-gram model and then uses this recast model to perform lattice rescoring. DLR improves the efficiency of discriminative n-gram modeling and facilitates combined processing of discriminative n-gram modeling with other post-processing techniques such as the ED-EC framework. / This thesis proposes an error detection and correction (ED-EC) framework to incorporate advanced linguistic knowledge sources into large vocabulary continuous speech recognition. Previous efforts that apply sophisticated language models (LMs) in speech recognition normally face a serious efficiency problem due to the intense computation required by these models. The ED-EC framework aims to achieve the full benefit of complex linguistic sources while at the same time maximize efficiency. The framework attempts to only apply computationally expensive LMs where needed in input speech. First, the framework detects recognition errors in the output of an efficient state-of-the-art decoding procedure. Then, it corrects the detected errors with the aid of sophisticated LMs by (1) creating alternatives for each detected error and (2) applying advanced models to distinguish among the alternatives. In this thesis, we implement a prototype of the ED-EC framework on the task of Mandarin dictation. This prototype detects recognition errors based on generalized word posterior probabilities, selects alternatives for errors from recognition lattices generated during decoding and adopts an advanced LM that combines mutual information, word trigrams and POS trigrams. The experimental results indicate the practical feasibility of the ED-EC framework, for which the optimal gain of the focused LM is theoretically achievable at low computational cost. On a general-domain test set, a 6.0% relative reduction in character error rate (CER) over the performance of a state-of-the-art baseline recognizer is obtained. In terms of efficiency, while both the detection of errors and the creation of alternatives are efficient, the application of the computationally expensive LM is concentrated on less than 50% of the utterances. We further demonstrate that the potential benefit of using the ED-EC framework in improving the recognition performance is tremendous. If error detection is perfect and alternatives for an error are guaranteed to include the correct one, the relative CER reduction over the baseline performance will increase to 36.0%. We also illustrate that the ED-EC framework is robust on unseen data and can be conveniently extended to other recognition systems. / Zhou, Zhengyu. / Adviser: Helen Mei-Ling Meng. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-11, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-155). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

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This thesis discusses selected linguistic aspects of two radio culinary broadcasts (Rozhlas u plotny, Pochoutky). The theoretical part deals with the tradition of spoken language research, its resources and the phenomena studied. The conclusion of this chapter is devoted to the approaches to spoken language focused on coherence and cohesion. For the purposes of analysis, transcripts of above mentioned radio culinary broadcasts were made. Specific transcription rules (based on different existing transcription rules) were created, to suit our type of analysis. In Rozhlas u plotny, the guest is a professional chef, in Pochoutky, the guest is an actor or a presenter. First part of the work briefly describes and compares language of these two types of speakers in the terms of phonetics, morphology, lexicology, syntax and stylistics. Subsequently, the main part of the thesis concentrates on textual syntax and describes cohesion and coherence of spoken dialogue. From this point of view, it focuses on comparison of two types of dialogues (and two types of speakers): predominantly continuous dialogue vs. predominantly interrupted dialogue (e.g. by overlapping talk). Thus, it gives examples representing various ways of retaining cohesion and coherence in continuous dialogue and in interrupted dialogue. Key...

A presente tese tem como objetivo descrever a norma semântico-lexical presente em nove municípios Aruanã, Caldas Novas, Cidade de Goiás, Goiandira, Ipameri, Mineiros, Morrinhos, Pirenópolis e Trindade, com vistas ao Atlas Semântico-Lexical do Estado de Goiás. Com esse intuito, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de campo, característica de todos os trabalhos de natureza geolinguística, para a recolha do corpus oral. O extenso território goiano vem crescendo economicamente desde a época das bandeiras e expedições jesuíticas. O ritmo da concentração rural e urbana cada vez mais crescente e acelerado vem acarretando expressivas mudanças no cenário cultural e linguístico do estado. Por isso, faz-se necessário resgatar e registrar o quanto antes, a variação semântico-lexical dessas localidades, iniciandose, assim, a elaboração de um Atlas Linguístico no Estado de Goiás, como forma de se registrar a memória linguística das comunidades goianas. Com base no referencial teóricometodológico da Geolinguística contemporânea, aplicou-se o Questionário Semântico- Lexical do Projeto Atlas Linguístico do Brasil, versão 2001, a trinta e seis sujeitosentrevistados subdivididos em duas faixas etárias 18 a 30 e 50 a 65 anos de idade, em dois gêneros masculino e feminino. Um banco de dados semântico-lexical foi elaborado com as respostas obtidas nas entrevistas. Posteriormente, os dados foram descritos e documentados em 202 cartogramas linguísticos, com a finalidade de se apresentar os resultados da variedade semântico-lexical do falar dos pontos pesquisados. Dada a natureza do trabalho, adotou-se, também, o referencial teórico de Lexicologia presente em Barbosa e a noção de norma proposta por Coseriu. Para o tratameno quantitativo dos dados, sobretudo com relação às noções de frequência, recorreu-se a Muller. Chegou-se a resultados significativos como, 14 itens lexicais com 100% de frequência relativa; e 100 itens lexicais com frequência igual ou superior a 50% e distribuição regular. Esses resultados apontam não apenas a norma semântico-lexical dos pontos pesquisados, como também constituem um retrato parcial do falar goiano. / This thesis aims to describe the semantic-lexical standard present in nine towns Aruanã, Caldas Novas, Goiás, Goiandira, Ipameri, Mineiros, Morrinhos, Pirenópolis and Trindade, considering the Semantic-Lexical Atlas of Goiás State. Based on this plan, a field research was developed, as it naturally happens in all geolinguistic works for the collection of the oral corpus. The Goiás extensive territory has been growing enormously economically since the Jesuit expeditions time. The increasing rate of the rural and urban concentrations has been bringing on significant changes in the state cultural and linguistic scenario. Therefore, it is necessary to rescue and register the semantic-lexical variation of these localities as soon as possible, and consequently start the development of a Linguistic Atlas in the state of Goiás as a way to register the linguistic memory of the communities of Goiás. Based on the theoretical-methodological referential of the Contemporary Geolinguistic, the Semantic- Lexical Questionnaire of the Brazilian Linguistic Atlas Project, version 2001, was applied to thirty six individuals who were interviewed and separated into two age levels, from 18 to 30 and from 50 to 65, and also genders, male and female. A semantic-lexical data base was elaborated with the answers obtained from the interviews. The data were later described and documented into 202 linguistic cartograms aiming to present the results of the semanticlexical linguistic variety of the researched aspects. Given the nature of this work, the Lexicology theoretic referential present in Barbosa was adopted, and the conception of regulation proposed by Coseriu. Significant results were raised, such as 14 lexical items with 100% relative frequency, and 100 lexical items with an equal or superior 50% frequency and a regular distribution. Not only do these results show a semantic-lexical regulation of the issues researched, but they also constitute a partial picture of the goiano way of speaking.

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo sobre como a tecnologia adaptativa pode ser utilizada para aprimorar métodos existentes de gerenciamento de diálogo. O gerenciamento de diálogo é a atividade central em um sistema computacional de diálogo falado, sendo a responsável por decidir as ações comunicativas que devem ser enviadas ao usuário. Para evidenciar pontos que pudessem ser melhorados através do uso da tecnologia adaptativa, faz-se uma revisão literária ampla do gerenciamento do diálogo. Esta revisão também permite elencar critérios existentes e criar outros novos para avaliar gerenciadores de diálogos. Um modelo de gerenciamento adaptativo baseado em máquinas de estados, denominado Adaptalker, é então proposto e utilizado para criar um framework de desenvolvimento de gerenciadores de diálogo, o qual foi exercitado pelo desenvolvimento ilustrativo de uma aplicação simples de venda de pizzas. A análise desse exemplo permite observar como a adaptatividade é utilizada para aperfeiçoar o modelo, tornando-o capaz, por exemplo, de lidar de forma mais eficiente tanto com o reparo do diálogo quanto com a iniciativa do usuário. As regras de gerenciamento do Adaptalker são organizadas em submáquinas, que trabalham de forma concorrente para decidir qual a próxima ação comunicativa. / This work presents a study on how to apply adaptive technologies to improve existing dialog management methodologies. Dialog management is the central activity of a spoken dialog system, being responsible for choosing the communicative actions sent to the system user. In order to evidence parts that can be improved with adaptive technology, a large review on dialog management is presented. This review allows us to point existing criteria and create new ones to evaluate dialog managers. An adaptive management model based on finite state-based spoken dialog systems, Adaptalker, is proposed and used to build a development framework of dialog managers, which is illustrated by creating a pizza selling application. Analysis of this example allows us to observe how to use adaptivity to improve the model, allowing it to handle both dialog repair and user initiative more efficiently. Adaptalker groups its management rules in submachines that work concurrently to choose the next communication action.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a ocorrência de variantes terminológicas na linguagem de especialidade do Café e verificar a possibilidade de se construir um produto terminológico bilíngüe baseado na oralidade. Inspirado no trabalho profissional de interpretação consecutiva e intermitente, o estudo utiliza corpora falados, uma vez que podemos estabelecer uma relação clara entre a oralidade e a interpretação, modalidade oral da tradução. Todas as dificuldades encontradas na construção dos corpora falados são explicitadas e algumas sugestões são feitas para futuras pesquisas. A pesquisa segue os princípios da Lingüística de Corpus (LC), tanto na elaboração dos corpora como também na análise dos dados, essa com o uso da ferramenta computacional WordSmith Tools, agilizando o processo e dando a ele confiabilidade. O estudo justifica-se pela importância do conhecimento de variantes terminológicas nas línguas de especialidade e na sua modalidade falada, por intérpretes e por profissionais da área e, também, pelas possibilidades oferecidas pela LC para a pesquisa socioterminológica na oralidade. Assim, compilamos dois corpora falados monolíngües, um em português do Brasil e outro em inglês de países diversos, com o tema Café, subdividido em colheita e processamento, composto por entrevistas face-a-face da pesquisadora com profissionais da área cafeeira e por conversações entre profissionais, em ambas as línguas. Também construímos um corpus bilíngüe, composto por interpretações entre falantes de inglês e de português. Em seguida, analisamos os dados dos corpora, buscando encontrar variantes. Ao final do trabalho, elaboramos um vocabulário bilíngüe a partir dos dados coletados e das análises efetuadas. / The aim of this research is to analyze the presence of terminological variants in the specialty language of coffee and to verify the possibility of building a bilingual vocabulary based on spoken language. The study is guided by the consecutive or liaison interpreting and the use of spoken corpora, once we can establish a close relation between spoken language and interpreting, oral mode of translation. Several difficulties were faced in order to build the spoken corpora, and they are presented with some suggestions for future research. The principles of Corpus Linguistics are followed to the corpora design, as well corpora exploration, using Mike Scott\'s WordSmith Tools. The study is significant due to the knowledge of terminological variants in spoken language, by interpreters and professional workers at a specialty area, and also to the possibilities Corpus Linguistics offers to a socioterminological research at spoken variety. Two monolingual spoken corpora were compiled, one in Brazilian Portuguese and the other in English spoken world-wide. The main topic is Coffee, divided in harvest and processing, with face to face interviews as well as conversations among coffee professionals, in both languages. An interpreting corpus is also included in the work, between Portuguese and English speakers. After analysis, we present a bilingual vocabulary of spoken language, including the variants found for most of the terms.