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Title Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium / edited by Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003

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Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 114
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 114. 0922-842X
Contents Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium -- Foreword -- Imperatives in dialogue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The compositional semantics of imperatives -- 3. Going dynamic -- 4. Imperatives and rhetorical relations -- 4.1. Defeasible conditionals and metatalk relations -- 4.2. Imperative answers -- 4.3. Corrections -- 5. Some concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation -- 1. Introduction
2. Motivation for integrating CMT in grammatical analysis -- 3. Integrating CMT into a constraint-based grammar -- 3.1. Basics -- 3.2. Reprise uses and CMTs -- 4. Conclusions and future work -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- An hpsg-based representation model for illocutionary acts in crisis talk -- 1. A modified formalism -- 2. Crisis talk and application of the formalism -- 3. Conditions and rules and their relation to the hpsg-based model -- 3.1. Conditions -- 3.2. Rules -- 4. Description of the model -- 4.1. General structure
4.2. Particular structures of the item of type F for a directive -- 4.3. Particular structure of the item of type P -- 5. An alternative solution -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Denial and presupposition -- 1. Denials as negative assertions -- 2. Denial as corrections of contextual information -- 3. Shifting denotations -- 4. Dialogue models -- 5. Objecting to implicatures and presuppositions -- 6. Suspension by local accommodation -- 7. Two linguistic generalizations -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Between binding and accommodation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is bridging?
3. Approaches to bridging -- 3.1. Lexical or encyclopedic based approaches -- 3.2. Functional based approaches -- 3.3. Empirical work -- 4. Spoken language corpus data -- 4.1. Multiple potential anchors for many bridging NPs available and perceived -- 4.2. Multiple links possible to the same anchor -- 4.3. Not all theoretically possible links are perceived -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1.1. Presupposition -- 1.2. Speaker's presuppositions or speaker/hearer presuppositions?
1.3. Compositionality -- 1.4. Presupposition projection -- 1.5. The simplest proposal -- 1.6. Gazdar's (1979) proposal -- 1.7. Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet (2000) -- 1.8. van der Sandt (1992) -- 1.9. Some interesting examples by van der Sandt -- Part II -- 2.1. Presuppositional clitics: The problem -- 2.2. Some further data -- 2.3. A problem -- 2.4. Semantics or pragmatics? -- 2.5. Modal subordination -- 2.6. The implicature analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Semantic meaning and four types of speech act -- 1. The general assumption of semantic meaning -- 2. Generics
Summary The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of dialogue. Other matters still are disputed. This volume contains papers both of foundational and applied orientation. It is the result of one of a series of specialized Workshops on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue that took place in 2001. One can therefore truly say that it mirrors both th
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Subject Dialogue analysis.
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
Dialogue analysis
Dialogen.
Form Electronic book
Author Kühnlein, Peter
Rieser, Hannes
Zeevat, Henk, 1952-
LC no. 2003054591
ISBN 9789027296184
9027296189
9781588114044
158811404X
1282160958
9781282160958
9786612160950
6612160950
Other Titles Perspectives on dialog in the new millennium