User:Wael ling/sandbox

= Article evaluation = The name of the article is Presupposition

The article is very informative but I think it would much better if it begins with the popular scholar's definitions of presuppositions. I do like they title the triggers of presuppositions and then list all the triggers.

I think the article is neutral and that might be the reason why they did not get into different definitions by different scholars.

I did not see viewpoints that are overrepresented or underrepresented.

I checked the reference Karttunen, Lauri (1974) and I was able to find the full text which I think support the article claimed.

The references were reliable. However, to the first half of the page no in text citations were used. The sources when used are neutral and they provided more than point of view as in the factive verbs section. More new sources would be helpful to add on the reference list.

I checked the talk page and found some handouts about choosing, editing and citing articles on wikipedia.

The article was not part of WikiProjects. It is an actually article and I believe it to be very helpful. The way this article is different from the way we discusses articles in the class is that it talks about the topic not only from a linguistics point of view but they also added the philosophical background. Also, the article does not show the historical development of defining Presupposition.

Evaluation of Discourse Marker (Usage section)
The article include the definition and usage of discourse marker.The citation of the article is reliable. However, more popular references could be added such as (Levinson 1983), (Fraser 1999), (Brinton 1996) and others.

As we discussed this article in our group, we are planing to develop the usage section by adding more material about discourse marker in Arabic.

Discourse Marker in Arabic
Discourse markers in Arabic such as the adverbials wa-min huna fa ‘thus’, al-an-a fa ‘now’ ragma haða fa ‘despite that’ fi-alwaqi ‘as a matter of fact.’. Furthermore, wa ‘and’, fa ‘since, for, so, thus’ bal ‘rather’ and ið ‘since. Connectives and conjunctions have different functions at the discourse level. In general, functions of the the discourse marker 'I mean' could be categorized into five main classes: interpersonal (information about the speaker, situation and the level of politeness), turn management (turn taking, holding, relinquishing holding), repairing (substituting a pause, stalling for time and forewarn upcoming adjustments), monitoring (focus addressees' attention ) organizing (introducing topic shifts, commentary, justification and modification. The discourse marker yaʕni collocates with other discourse markers such as maʕruf ‘it is known’, bass ‘only’ fa ‘and’.