
Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue
Experimenting with Current Dynamic Theories
Brassey's (UK) Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 12. November 2001
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-08-043943-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL), Discourse Representation Theory (DRT), and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT). They reflect the current move of formal semantics from short multisentential texts towards structured discourses and dialogues, accounting for more and more phenomena at the semantics-pragmatics interface (such as subtleties of anaphora and presupposition, the role of temporal connectives in discourse or the establishment of common references in dialogue).
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-043943-3 (9780080439433)
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Content
Foreword. Introduction. She's character, P. Dekker
Exhaustivity and specificity: a parallelism between answers and pronouns, R. van Rooy
Presupposition computation and presupposition justification: one aspect of the interpretation of multi-sentence discourse, H. Kamp
Presupposition triggered by temporal connectives, F. Schilder
French adverbial puis between temporal structure and discourse structure, M. Bras et al.
The meaning of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials, A. Alves, I. Gomez Txurruka
Spatial inferences in a localization dialogue, P. Krause et al.
Cooperativity in dialogue, N. Asher et al.
Index
Exhaustivity and specificity: a parallelism between answers and pronouns, R. van Rooy
Presupposition computation and presupposition justification: one aspect of the interpretation of multi-sentence discourse, H. Kamp
Presupposition triggered by temporal connectives, F. Schilder
French adverbial puis between temporal structure and discourse structure, M. Bras et al.
The meaning of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials, A. Alves, I. Gomez Txurruka
Spatial inferences in a localization dialogue, P. Krause et al.
Cooperativity in dialogue, N. Asher et al.
Index