Semantic and pragmatic issues in discourse and dialogue : experimenting with current dynamic theories / [edited by] Myriam Bras & Laure Vieu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bras, Myriam.

Vieu, Laure.

Series:

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 9.

Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Discourse analysis.

Dialogue analysis.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.

Summary:

This volume addresses current 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 (e.g., subtleties of anaphora and presupposition, the role of temporal connectives in discourse or the establishment of common references in dialogue).

Notes:

"Revised and extended versions of papers presented at a workshop on 'Theortical bases for semantics and pragmatics in NLP: the expression of time, space movement in lexicon, discourse and dialogue', held in conjunction with the sixth TALN conference Cargèse (Corsica) in July 1999"-p. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0080439438

OCLC:

48883533