Discourses, argumentative and devotional, on the subject of the Jewish religion : delivered at the synagogue Mikveh Israel

by Isaac Leeser

Enragé! Monologue comique dit

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Oh, dese women! : a Dutch monologue /

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The art of reading : containing a number of useful rules exemplified by a variety of selected and original pieces, narrative, didactic, argumentative, poetical, descriptive, pathetic, humourous, and entertaining, together with dialogues, speeches, orations, addresses, and harangues : calculated to improve the scholar in reading and speaking with propriety and elegance, and to impress the minds of youth with sentiments of virtue and religion : designed for the use of schools and families /

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Procès de Joseph N. Cardinal et autres : auquel on a joint la requête argumentative en faveur des prisonniers et plusieurs autres documents précieux, &c. &c. &c. /

Vraisemblablement de André-Romuald Cherrier, attribué par Gagnon (I, 687) à Francis Johnson. Cf. Vinet. Pseudonymes québécois.

The national preceptor; or, Selections in prose and poetry; consisting of narrative, descriptive, argumentative, didactic, pathetic, and humorous pieces ...

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Modifying the Mask: the Transformation of the Dramatic Monologue Across the Works of Robert Browning, Norman Dubie, and Frank Bidart

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Examining argumentative coherence in essays by undergraduate students of English as a foreign language in Mainland China and their English speaking peers in the United States

I conducted this study to provide insights toward deepening understanding of association between culture and writing by building, assessing, and refining a conceptual model of second language writing. To do this, I examined culture and coherence as well as the relationship between them through a mixed methods research design. Coherence has been an important and complex concept in ESL/EFL writing. I intended to study the concept of coherence in the research context of contrastive rhetoric, comparing the coherence quality in argumentative essays written by undergraduates in Mainland China and their U.S. peers. In order to analyze the complex concept of coherence, I synthesized five linguistic theories of coherence: Halliday and Hasan's cohesion theory, Carroll's theory of coherence, Enkvist's theory of coherence, Topical Structure Analysis, and Toulmin's Model. Based upon the synthesis, 16 variables were generated. Across these 16 variables, Hotelling t-test statistical analysis was conducted to predict differences in argumentative coherence between essays written by two groups of participants. In order to complement the statistical analysis, I conducted 30 interviews of the writers in the studies. Participants' responses were analyzed with open and axial coding. By analyzing the empirical data, I refined the conceptual model by adding more categories and establishing associations among them. The study found that U.S. students made use of more pronominal reference. Chinese students adopted more lexical devices of reiteration and extended paralleling progression. The interview data implied that the difference may be associated with the difference in linguistic features and rhetorical conventions in Chinese and English. As far as Toulmin's Model is concerned, Chinese students scored higher on data than their U.S. peers. According to the interview data, this may be due to the fact that Toulmin's Model, modified as three elements of arguments, have been widely and long taught in Chinese writing instruction while U.S. interview participants said that they were not taught to write essays according to Toulmin's Model. Implications were generated from the process of textual data analysis and the formulation of structural model defining coherence. These implications were aimed at informing writing instruction, assessment, peer-review, and self-revision.

Séquence didactique visant l’efficacité argumentative des textes d’opinion

Cette recherche expérimente une séquence didactique consacrée au texte d’opinion. Elle vise à amener des scripteurs adultes non francophones à produire des textes argumentativement efficaces, c’est-à-dire des textes dont les marques linguistiques, énonciatives et rhétoriques permettent d’obtenir l’assentiment de l’auditoire. Aujourd’hui encore, la prise en compte de l’efficacité d’un texte d’opinion ne constitue pas un aspect essentiel de l’enseignement de textes argumentatifs, largement dominé par une approche structurelle et formelle. Notre recherche développe une approche intégratrice et critique des travaux de didactique du français à propos de l’argumentation discursive; aussi nous situons-nous à l’antipode des conceptions logicisantes de l’argumentation écrite. Opérant une synthèse des courants théoriques qui ont étudié l’argumentation, en particulier la Nouvelle rhétorique, l’analyse de discours dans ses versions française et anglo-saxonne, la pragmadialectique et « l’argumentation dans la langue », nous avons construit le concept d’efficacité argumentative, socle de l’élaboration, de l’expérimentation et de l’analyse de notre séquence didactique. Cette dernière a été construite selon la démarche de recherche de l’ingénierie didactique avec son réseau de concepts et les différentes étapes qui la composent. Un prétest a permis d’évaluer les capacités argumentatives des étudiants. L’évaluation de ces données nous a guidés dans le choix des contenus des ateliers qui portent sur l’inscription des paramètres de la situation de communication, l’étayage de la thèse, la réfutation et la concession, la polyphonie et la contreargumentation. Ce travail a été suivi d’un posttest qui visait à valider l’effet de l’enseignement sur les compétences des étudiants et leur capacité à produire des textes d’opinion argumentativement efficaces. Nous espérons avoir montré que l’efficacité argumentative devrait être le paradigme principal de l’enseignement des genres argumentatifs et qu’il existe des outils didactiques valides pour contribuer à la démocratisation de l’accès à la langue, non pas comme simple code, mais comme un outil pour agir dans la société. L’enjeu dépasse le simple cadre scolaire, puisque la maitrise de l’argumentation est essentielle au développement professionnel et social des individus, mais aussi, osons nous ajouter, pour l’avènement de sociétés réellement démocratiques.

Experiments on identification of argumentative sentences

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the best set of features that automatically enables the identification of argumentative sentences from unstructured text. As corpus, we use case laws from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Three kinds of experiments are conducted: Basic Experiments, Multi Feature Experiments and Tree Kernel Experiments. These experiments are basically categorized according to the type of features available in the corpus. The features are extracted from the corpus and Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest are the used as Machine learning algorithms. We achieved F1 score of 0.705 for identifying the argumentative sentences which is quite promising result and can be used as the basis for a general argument-mining framework.

Hybrid Artificial Intelligence to Extract Patterns and Rules from Argumentative and Legal Texts

This Thesis is composed of a collection of works written in the period 2019-2022, whose aim is to find methodologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to detect and classify patterns and rules in argumentative and legal texts. We define our approach “hybrid”, since we aimed at designing hybrid combinations of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI, involving both “top-down” structured knowledge and “bottom-up” data-driven knowledge. A first group of works is dedicated to the classification of argumentative patterns. Following the Waltonian model of argument and the related theory of Argumentation Schemes, these works focused on the detection of argumentative support and opposition, showing that argumentative evidences can be classified at fine-grained levels without resorting to highly engineered features. To show this, our methods involved not only traditional approaches such as TFIDF, but also some novel methods based on Tree Kernel algorithms. After the encouraging results of this first phase, we explored the use of a some emerging methodologies promoted by actors like Google, which have deeply changed NLP since 2018-19 — i.e., Transfer Learning and language models. These new methodologies markedly improved our previous results, providing us with best-performing NLP tools. Using Transfer Learning, we also performed a Sequence Labelling task to recognize the exact span of argumentative components (i.e., claims and premises), thus connecting portions of natural language to portions of arguments (i.e., to the logical-inferential dimension). The last part of our work was finally dedicated to the employment of Transfer Learning methods for the detection of rules and deontic modalities. In this case, we explored a hybrid approach which combines structured knowledge coming from two LegalXML formats (i.e., Akoma Ntoso and LegalRuleML) with sub-symbolic knowledge coming from pre-trained (and then fine-tuned) neural architectures.

Weak reasoning argumentative theory. A dialogical approach for the discovery of philosophy in high schools

In the literature on philosophical practices, despite the crucial role that argumentation plays in these activities, no specific argumentative theories have ever been proposed to assist the figure of the facilitator in conducting philosophical dialogue and to enhance student’s critical thinking skills. The dissertation starts from a cognitive perspective that challenges the classic Cartesian notion of rationality by focusing on limits and biases of human reasoning. An argumentative model (WRAT – Weak Reasoning Argumentative Theory) is then outlined in order to respond to the needs of philosophical dialogue. After justifying the claim that this learning activity, among other inductive methodologies, is the most suitable for critical thinking education, I inquired into the specific goal of ‘arguing’ within this context by means of the tools provided by Speech Act Theory: the speaker’s intention is to construct new knowledge by questioning her own and other’s beliefs. The model proposed has been theorized on this assumption, starting from which the goals, and, in turn, the related norms, have been pinpointed. In order to include all the epistemic attitudes required to accomplish the complex task of arguing in philosophical dialogue, I needed to integrate two opposed cognitive accounts, Dual Process Theory and Evolutionary Approach, that, although they provide incompatible descriptions of reasoning, can be integrated to provide a normative account of argumentation. The model, apart from offering a theoretical contribution to argumentation studies, is designed to be applied to the Italian educational system, in particular to classes in technical and professional high schools belonging to the newly created network Inventio. This initiative is one of the outcomes of the research project by the same name, which also includes an original Syllabus, research seminars, a monitoring action and publications focused on introducing philosophy, in the form of workshop activities, into technical and professional schools.

O desenvolvimento do texto dissertativo em crianças da 4ª série

This reaserch analysed the developmental stage of fourth grade (primary school) children in ability of writting argumentative texts joint with their context. The reason of this reaserch is the lack of new studies in linguistical area and high ratio of unable students to make this kind of text. It will be showed the analysis of making text by public schools children for three months. These data were analysed trying identify argumentative operators, the kinds of arguments used and the stage of the argumentative ability of these children. The study showed that the introduction of argumentative text in first grades give them more chances of succeed, preparing these pupils in their finishing high school. This fact obviously will make easier the development of their critical point of view, helping the students to think about their living social reality.