Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose

doi:10.3233/aac-170028

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“…Tide marks the literal base, the non-intentional, non-agentive entity about which intentional agency (personification) is predicated; it is the Target. But other figurative phenomena, such as irony, which is best regarded as discourse tone or mood, and which can pervade an entire argument or novel, or define the attitude of a certain speaker, and prolepsis, which is a strategy of anticipation (see [46]), present greater obstacles.…”

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An annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures

Harris

Marco

Ruan

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Abstract. There is a driving need computationally to interrogate large bodies of text for a range of non-denotative meaning (e.g., to plot chains of reasoning, detect sentiment, diagnose genre, and so forth). But such meaning has always proven computationally allusive. It is often implicit, 'hidden' meaning, evoked by linguistic cues, stylistic arrangement, or conceptual structurefeatures that have hitherto been difficult for Natural Language Processing systems to recognize and use. Non-denotative textual effects are the historical concern of rhetorical studies, and we have turned to rhetoric in order to find new ways to advance NLP, especially for sophisticated tasks like Argument Mining. This paper highlights certain rhetorical devices that encode levels of meaning that have been overlooked in Computational Linguistics generally and Argument Mining particularly, and yet lend themselves to automated detection. These devices are the linguistic configurations known as Rhetorical Figures. We argue for the importance of these devices for Argument Mining, especially in collocations, and we present an XML annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures to make figuration more tractable for computational approaches, particularly with an eye on the improvements they offer Argument Mining. We also discuss the intellectual and technical challenges involved in figure annotation and the implications for Machine Learning.

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An annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures

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Ruan

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“…The rhetorical devices identified in our analyses are based on descriptions in two recent studies in Argument and Computation [8,16] and a rhetorical handbook for writers [5]. In the Waterloo Rhetorical Figure Ontology (RhetFig) [8], rhetorical figures are classified as schemes (various phonetic, lexical, and syntactic patterns), tropes (figures involving semantics such as metaphor), chroma (figures involving pragmatics such as rhetorical questions and sarcasm), and moves (discourse patterns such as counterargument-rebuttal).…”

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“…In the analysis of the two articles presented here we have identified figures from each category. Mehlenbacher [16] argues that the rhetorical move of prolepsis "can be understood both as a rhetorical figure and as an argument strategy". In our analysis, we identified occurrences of two of the proleptic rhetorical argument strategies she describes: Protocatalepsis and Prolepsis as Presage.…”

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“…1 Although ¶3 and ¶4 play a role in the policy argument described above, the untitled opening section of the article ( ¶1-4) also plays a large role rhetorically. As noted in analyses of other environmental writing [16], the introduction first engages the reader with a fable-like warning of environmental catastrophe. The last clause, a position of rhetorical salience, is shorter than the other phrases, which also lends rhetorical salience to it [5].…”

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Recognizing rhetoric in science policy arguments

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2020

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Diligent citizens must critically analyze arguments for science policy recommendations, such as cutting greenhouse gas emissions or growing genetically modified food crops. Science policy articles present arguments for and against such recommendations using scientific evidence and rhetorical devices. In this paper we present an in-depth analysis of argumentation and rhetorical devices in two journal articles on climate change issues. One objective was to gain a better understanding of use of rhetorical devices in this genre, as a prerequisite for designing and building a rhetorically-annotated digital corpus of full-text science policy articles. The near term objective was to inform the design of pedagogical tools to help students analyze science policy arguments.

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“…Under such scrutiny, we predict that the models we have for figures will uncover a greater complexity of foundational constituents (such as parallelism and symmetry) and complementary elements (such as semantic and pragmatic augmentation) that brings insights into the cognitive basis for understanding. Another interesting approach by Mehlenbacher [44] proposes that prolepsis, the figure of anticipation, can also be seen as an argument strategy and an argument scheme in and of itself. She proposes the proleptic suite as a preliminary map for special argument schemes which would also be beneficial for a combined approach to argument mining using rhetorical figure modeling.…”

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Ontological representations of rhetorical figures for argument mining

Mitrović

O'Reilly

Mladenović

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Abstract. This paper surveys ontological modeling of rhetorical concepts, developed for use in argument mining and other applications of computational rhetoric, projecting their future directions. We include ontological models of argument schemes applying Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST); the RhetFig proposal for modeling; the related RetFig Ontology of Rhetorical Figures for Serbian (developed by two of the authors); and the Lassoing Rhetoric project (developed by another of the authors). The Lassoing Rhetoric venture is interesting for its multifaceted approach to linguistic devices, prominently including rhetorical figures, but also RST relations and stylistic models, like the use of historic present. This application takes a natural language text input and uses syntactic parsing tools to produce a knowledge base of linguistic entities using references to an OWL ontological framework, locating these devices using Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) logic rules. The paper also reports on a similar approach in research into detecting ironic tweets in a Serbian twitter corpus. The rhetorical schemes used for argument mining are also presented, as well as some suggestions for novel argument schemes based on the ontological approach to rhetorical figuration.

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Rhetorical figures as argument schemes – The proleptic suite

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

An annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures

An annotation scheme for Rhetorical Figures

Recognizing rhetoric in science policy arguments

Ontological representations of rhetorical figures for argument mining

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