Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

✍ Scribed by Cristina Grisot

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense, grammatical and lexical aspect are treated as cohesion ties contributing to the temporal coherence of a discourse, as well as to the cognitive temporal coherence of the mental representations built in the language comprehension process. As such, it investigates the phenomenon of temporal reference at the interface between corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics and pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, psycholinguistics, natural language processing and machine translation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
The Linguistic Expression of Temporal Reference (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 1-64
Formal Semantic-Discursive and Pragmatic Assessments of Temporal Reference (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 65-110
Corpus-Based Contrastive Study of Verbal Tenses (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 111-135
Experimental Study Using Annotation Experiments (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 137-172
A Pragmatic Model of Temporal Cohesive Ties (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 173-215
Temporal Coherence (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 217-262
Application to Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation (Cristina Grisot)....Pages 263-288
Back Matter ....Pages 289-319

✦ Subjects

Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Pragmatics; Computational Linguistics; Theoretical Linguistics