Pragmatics at Issue

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Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987. Volume 1: Pragmatics at Issue

Jef Verschueren(Editor)

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PRAGMATICS AT ISSUE
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
Preschoolers' active search for pragmatic knowledge
Method
Subjects
Procedure
Results
Discussion
NOTE
Children's pragmatic knowledge of narrative tasks
1. Introduction
1.1 Interactional approach to the analysis of children's narration
1.2 Pragmatic knowledge of narration interaction (narrative tasks and presuppositions about the listener)
2. Study I. Experiment and data characterization
2.1 Experimental design
2.2 Results
2.2.1 Content of narrative text: Choice of reference situations
2.2.2 Informational organization of narration: Category choice
2.3 Conclusion
3. Study II. The test study. Design and data characterization
3.1 The test situation: Hypothesis
3.2 The text study
3.3 Results
3.3.1 Picture content and narrative strategy
3.3.2 Narrative strategy distribution across situations
3.3.3 Constancy and change in individual children's narrative strategy
3.4 Conclusion
4. Discussion
NOTES
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Psychopragmatics vs. sociopragmatics: the function of pragmatic markers in thinking-aloud protocols
1. Psycholinguistic processes in problem-solving protocols
1) Lexical choices
b) Modal and illocutionary markers ("Prise en charge")
c) Topic/comment structure
d) Connectives
2. Psychopragmatics and mental models
3. Psychopragmatics and sociopragmatics
Semantics, pragmatics, and situated meaning
Some aspects of hyponymy
Categories and cognitive models
Yankee kinship terminology
The concept of [mother]
The concept of [physician]
Conclusion
NOTE
Conceptual and semantic co-ordination in children's dialogue
Introduction
Referential communicative skills of childre
Coordination in adult dialogue
Co-ordination in children
1. Comparison of intra-dialogue co-ordination
2. Improvements in co-ordination across games
3. Convergence and change of description schemes across games
Discussion of results
How much pragmatics and how much grammar: the case of Haruai
1. Introduction
2. Noun phrase relations in Haruai
3. Avoiding multiple unmarked noun phrases
4. Other evidence for Haruai as a "pragmatic" language
5. Conclusions
NOTES
A sociolinguistic model of successful speech act construction
1. Introduction: Limitations of traditional speech act theory
2. Analysis
2.1 The form of speech acts: The notion of 'success'
2.2 Distinguishing between Searle's 'differences'
2.3 The notion of STRENGTH
2.4 A model of speech act construction
2.5 Motivations for the analysis
3. Conclusion: Predictive results
NOTES
Towards a model for generating cleft sentences
1. Introduction
1.1. Some terms
2. The discourse functions of clefts
2.1 The correction move
2.2 The continuation move
2.3 The fill move
3. Generating corrections
3.1 A general principle for corrections
3.2 Types of correction move
3.2.1 Relating a different argument to an existing predicate
3.2.2 Relating a different predicate to an existing argument
3.3 Arranging propositions as correction clefts
3.4 Correcting directly and indirectly
3.5 Knowledge required for correction moves
4. Generating continuations
4.1 The types of continuation move
4.1.1 Simple continuations
4.1.2 Complex continuations
4.1.3 Information arrangement in continuations
4.2 Knowledge required for continuation moves
5. Summary and additional issues
NOTES
Four properties of speech-in-interaction and the notion of translocutionary act
1. Introduction
2.1 Multifunctionality
2.2 Reflexivity
2.3 Interactivity
2.4 Sequentiality
3.1 An Italian narrative
3.2 Narrative structure
3.3 Evaluation
3.3.1 Italian subject pronouns
3.3.2 Negative evaluation
3.3.3 Explicit evaluation
3.4 Properties of the demonstrative
4. Translocutionary acts
NOTES
The study of argumentation from a speech act perspective
Introduction
1. The speech act perspective in the Philosophical Estate
2. The speech act perspective in the Theoretical Estate
3. The speech act perspective in the Reconstruction Estate
4. The speech act perspective in the Empirical Estate
5. The speech act perspective in the Practical Estate
NOTES
Intentional ascription, autism and troubles with content
Introduction
1. Intentional ascription ability
2. Intentional ascription and language
3. Content and language of thought
4. Ascription and asymmetry
5. Intentional ascription and interaction
6. Towards a non-representationalist methodology
7. Conclusion
NOTES
Children's referential communication in a game situation
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Material
2.3 Design and procedure
2.4 Scoring
3. Results
3.1 Speaker's use of unambiguous/ambiguous messages
3.2 Speaker's completion of information in response to the adequacy question
3.3 Listener's request for clarification
3.4 The listener's choice of card
3.5. Choice of ambiguously described card in relation to "expected" choice
3.6 Information from previous game rounds
4. Discussion
NOTE
Towards a computational theory of speech acts
1. Speech act generation
1.1 Knowing what to say
1.2 Knowing how to say it
2. Speech act representations
2.1. Illocutionary acts and the discourse dimension
2.1.1 The pervasiveness of discourse relations
2.1.2 Representations and discourse structure
2.2 Illocutionary acts and speech acts
3. Speech act recognition
NOTES
The description of utterances in conversation
1. Introduction
2. Criteria of characterization
3. Actual function and potential functions
4. Nature of categorial labels
5. Descriptive criteria
5.1 Structural location
5.2 Prospected response
6. A taxonomy of discourse acts
6.1 Primary classes
6.2 Secondary classes
7. Concluding remarks
NOTES
Primal content and actual content: an antidote to literal meaning
1. Introduction
2. The right-wing orthodoxy
2.1 The left-wing challenge
2.2 The right-wing defense
2.2.1 A note on polysemy
3. The new problem
4. The new picture
4.1 Primal content, logical form, and semantic form
4.2 The sensible speaker/hearer
4.3 Ordinary content
4.4 Idiomaticity and indirect speech acts
4.5 Conventionalized metaphor
4.6 Inferring actual content
5. Other objections to literal meaning
5.1 An example
5.2 Psychological considerations
5.3 Vagueness
6. Summary
7. Acknowledgments
NOTES
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