Sumários

21 Maio 2026, 09:30 • Pierre Marie Bernard Ghislain Lejeune

Teste

19 Maio 2026, 12:30 • Amália Mendes

Factors that affect the implicitness and explicitness of discourse relations.

Hypothesis related to causality by default interpretation, to continuity in discourse and to cognitive complexity.

Application of these hypotheses to results of discourse relation annotations in several languages

19 Maio 2026, 09:30 • Pierre Marie Bernard Ghislain Lejeune

Teorias da ironia : retórica clássica, Grice e a máxima de qualidade , teoria do eco (Sperber & Wilson), teoria do fingimento

Estudo da ironia na crónica de Ricardo Aráujo Pereira «Confirma-se a relação entre imigração e criminalidade» (Expresso, 12/25)

14 Maio 2026, 12:30 • Amália Mendes

Coherence and discourse relations

Explicit and implicit discourse relations.

The role of connectives and alternative lexicalizations.

Some examples.

14 Maio 2026, 09:30 • Pierre Marie Bernard Ghislain Lejeune

Departure(s) by Julian Barnes review – this final novel is a slippery affair

Alex Clarke, The Guardian, 19/1/26