Constraints in Discourse 2

✍ Scribed by Peter Kühnlein (ed.), Anton Benz (ed.), Candace L. Sidner (ed.)

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 194
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Text is highly structured, and structured at a variety of levels. But what are the units of text, which levels are at stake, and what establishes the structure that binds the units together? This volume, just as the predecessor a spin off of one of the workshops on constraints in discourse, contains the most recent, thoroughly reviewed papers by specialists in the area that try to give answers to such questions. It helps deepening the understanding of a multiplicity of mechanisms and constraints that are at work during production and comprehension of well-formed discourse. Researchers from linguistics, both formal and psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences will appreciate this book as a valuable resource for information and inspiration.

✦ Table of Contents

Constraints in Discourse 2......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page
......Page 4
LCC data
......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
0.1. General remarks......Page 8
0.2. Elementary units......Page 9
0.3. Rhetorical relations......Page 12
0.4. Structures and their properties......Page 15
0.5. About the papers......Page 17
Bibliography......Page 19
1. Introduction......Page 22
2. The Abduction framework......Page 24
3.2 Clause-internal coherence from explicit signals......Page 28
3.4 Problematic residue......Page 29
4.1. Science article......Page 30
4.2 Business news......Page 34
4.3 The novelette......Page 35
4.4 Shakespeare’s sonnet......Page 37
5. Summary......Page 40
References......Page 41
1. Optimality theoretic pragmatics......Page 42
2. Pragmatic constraints......Page 47
3. What should a theory of rhetorical structure achieve?......Page 50
4. Pragmatic constraints in rhetorical structure......Page 51
5. Coherence......Page 54
6. Rhetorical relations......Page 55
7. Discourse trees......Page 61
9. Conclusion......Page 62
References......Page 64
Modelling discourse relations by topics and implicatures......Page 68
1. Motivation......Page 69
2.1 Definitions......Page 72
2.2 Constraints......Page 74
3.1. The default case......Page 75
3.2 The effect of continuation intonation and the conjunction and......Page 77
4. Intonation and conjunction in spontaneous speech......Page 79
5. Conclusions and outlook......Page 82
References......Page 85
1. Introduction......Page 88
2. Representation of relational discourse structure......Page 89
3. Cues and constraints from logical document structure......Page 92
4.1. Interrelations between generic document structure and relational discourse structure......Page 97
4.2 Canonical sequence of global text type structure categories......Page 101
4.3 Correlations between text type structure categories and rhetorical relations......Page 102
5. Conclusion and outlook......Page 109
References......Page 110
1. Introduction......Page 112
2.1.1 Kaplan......Page 113
2.1.2 Krifka......Page 114
2.1.3 Sæbo......Page 116
2.2.1 Discourse particles......Page 117
2.3 Generalization......Page 118
2.3.1 Inventory......Page 119
2.3.2 Definition of the class......Page 121
3. Pragmatic explanation......Page 123
4.2 Preliminary “implementation” in SDRT......Page 127
References......Page 129
1. Introduction......Page 132
2. Empirical motivation......Page 133
3. Cypriot Greek speech act formulae......Page 136
4. The specification of formulae in HPSG......Page 138
5. Dual uptake......Page 142
References......Page 144
Constraints on metalinguistic anaphora......Page 148
1. Formal varieties of metalinguistic anaphora......Page 149
2. Constraints on the antecedent and referent of the antecedent......Page 151
3. A top-down approach......Page 152
4. What endows linguistic referents with the required level of salience?......Page 153
4.2 What brings linguistic entities into focus?......Page 155
5. Role of the predicate elsewhere......Page 157
6. Robustness of the proposed account......Page 159
7. Plausible explanations......Page 160
7.2 Inherent salience of certain words or phrases......Page 161
7.3 A general pragmatic framework......Page 162
8. Binding or accommodation?......Page 164
9. Conclusion......Page 166
References......Page 168
0.1. Outline......Page 170
0.2 Methodology......Page 171
1. Appositive Relative Clauses and their functions in discourse......Page 172
1.3 Continuative ARCs......Page 173
1.4 Morphosyntactic, semantic and prosodic characteristics......Page 174
2.2 Prosodic representations......Page 175
2.3 Prosodic dimensions......Page 177
2.4.1 Discourse annotation......Page 178
3.1. ARCs as parentheticals......Page 179
3.2 Differences between types of ARCs......Page 180
4. Discussion......Page 182
References......Page 183
Index......Page 186
The series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series......Page 188

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Дискурс и дискурс-анализ;