Sentence examples for preceding discourse from inspiring English sources

The teachers are more likely to refer to the preceding discourse, while Mrs Edgar refers to the phonology.

In practice, the preceding discourse is evident with the establishment of the humanitarian clusters after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.

DRT was one of the first semantic theories to go beyond the sentence boundary, and take into account how the interpretation of an expression may depend on the preceding discourse.

Then the two main parts of the sentence are analysed further, and the pronoun "it" triggers a rule which at once deals with the pronoun's lexical content and its context dependence; i.e. it says that we must select a new discourse referent, link it to a discourse referent made available by the preceding discourse, and update the DRS so as to record these changes.

The merge operation is also used for combining a sentence DRS with the DRS representing the preceding discourse, so the idea is that there is no principled distinction between (clausal) conjunction and sentence concatenation.[2] Officially, DRSs are set-theoretical objects, but in this article we use a linear notation.

With respect to finding an antecedent for an anaphor, for example, the interaction of the constraints explains the general tendency to look for the referent in the immediately preceding discourse rather than in the more remote fragments or, rather than constructing a referent ad hoc.

We organize this discussion around the same three elements that have animated the preceding work: conditions, discourse, policy and action.

Or perhaps even older: the Talmud (in Tractate Shabbat 30a) cites the practice of the third-century sage Rabbah, who would precede his discourses with a joke.

This back-and-forth, batted between father and son in Sealfons's upstairs offices, preceded a long discourse on the elephant in the storerooms and selling floors of many independent retailers first mentioned by Mr. Carbonell: the Mall at Short Hills.

His History of England, extending from Caesar's invasion to 1688, came out in six quarto volumes between 1754 and 1762, preceded by Political Discourses (1752).

A government-sponsored commission that studied the problem of fair campaigning recommended last year that TV stations voluntarily provide a mere five minutes each night for "candidate discourse" on the 30 nights preceding elections -- if only to compensate for television's shameful abandonment of serious political news coverage.