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Referring expressions in English and Japanese : patterns of use in dialogue processing / Etsuko Yoshida.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yoshida, Etsuko.
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond ; v. 208.
- Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 208
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase.
- English language--Grammar, Comparative--Japanese.
- English language.
- Japanese language--Grammar, Comparative--English.
- Japanese language.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It is a major challenge for linguists to explore the relations between referential choice and the discourse structure in dialogues, because, unlike written modes of discourse, dialogue as an interactional mode of discourse needs careful treatment for linguistic analysis. This book investigates how discourse entities are linked with topic chaining and discourse coherence by showing that the choice and the distribution of referring expressions is correlated with center transition patterns in the centering framework. It provides original empirical research into the use of referring expressions in
- Contents:
- Referring Expressions in English and Japanese; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations used in glosses; List of tables; List of figures; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Approaches to referring expressions; Chapter 3. Approaches to deictic expressions; Chapter 4. Data collection; Chapter 5. Centering and dialogue; Chapter 6. Referring expressions and local coherence of discourse; Chapter 7. Referring expressions and global discourse structure; Chapter 8. Collaborative nature of referring and structuring in discourse
- Chapter 9. ConclusionAppendix A. The samples of English and Japanese Map Task Dialogues; Appendix B. Conventions in transcripts; References; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2008 under the title: Patterns of use of referring expressions in English and Japanese Dialogues.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613158369
- 9781283158367
- 1283158361
- 9789027286659
- 9027286655
- OCLC:
- 742616875
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