
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
Michael Fortescue(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 1. January 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
137 pages
978-90-272-2505-4 (ISBN)
Description
This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2505-4 (9789027225054)
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Michael Fortescue
A Discourse Production Model for 'Twenty Questions'
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Content
1. Key to symbols and abbreviations; 2. Introduction; 3. 1. Interrogatives and questions: Form versus function; 4. 2. Responses to questions & other discourse acts; 5. 3. Indirect realizations of discourse acts; 6. 4. Discourse analysis for 'Twenty Questions; 7. 5. Frames & demons: An approach to procedural modelling; 8. 6. Modelling individual game utterance; 9. 7. Strategies & wider cognitive aspects of the model; 10. Footnotes; 11. References; 12. Appendix 1. The game rules; 13. Appendix 2. The question strategy flow diagram; 14. Appendix 3. Sample Games