Referring expressions in English and Japanese : patterns of use in dialogue processing

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 d...

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Hlavní autor: Yoshida, Etsuko
Médium: E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co 2011
John Benjamins Publishing Company
John Benjamins
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Edice:Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
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ISBN:9789027256126, 9027256128
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  • 5.5.1 Centering transition in the Japanese Map Task Corpus -- 5.5.2 Center transition in English Map Task Corpus -- 5.6 Initial results and discussion -- 5.6.1 No Cb -- 5.6.2 The CONTINUE transition -- 5.6.3 The SMOOTH-SHIFT transition -- 5.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Referring expressions and local coherence of discourse -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Method of analysis -- 6.3 The distribution of centering transitions in English and Japanese data -- 6.4 Distribution of Cbs in centering transitions: Types of referring expressions -- 6.5 The distribution of Cbs in transition sequence patterns -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Referring expressions and global discourse structure -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Research questions -- 7.3 The role of full NPs in the global focus of discourse -- 7.3.1 The limitation of Centering Theory -- 7.3.2 Walker's cache model -- 7.4 Analysis and results -- 7.4.1 Result: First mentions in Japanese data -- 7.4.2 Result: Subsequent mentions in Japanese data -- 7.4.3 Result: First mentions in English data -- 7.4.4 Subsequent mentions in English data -- 7.5 Discussion -- 7.5.1 (Zero) pronouns -- 7.5.2 NPs (bare nouns) -- 7.5.3 Demonstratives -- 7.5.4 Summary of discussion -- 7.6 Resolutions: The interpretation of NPs -- 7.6.1 Resolution 1: Extended interpretation of IRUs -- 7.6.2 Resolution 2: Cue words -- 7.6.3 Resolution 3: The role of Japanese demonstratives as topic continuity -- 7.6.4 Further discussion of resolutions 1 and 3 -- 7.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Collaborative nature of referring and structuring in discourse -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 NPs as first mentions in an initial presentation -- 8.3 NPs as subsequent mentions in an established topic -- 8.4 Discussion: A comparison with a narrative discourse 'Pear Stories' -- 8.5 Discussion: Discourse entities and sentence constructions in English and Japanese Map Task Corpora
  • 8.5.1 General view: Sentences as interaction -- 8.5.2 General issues and specific questions -- 8.5.3 Clause constructions in naturally occurring dialogues -- 8.5.4 A case study: Types of conditional clauses -- 8.5.5 Results -- 8.5.6 Functions of conditional clauses -- 8.5.7 Preliminary discussion: The interaction of utterance types, first mentions, and discourse development -- 8.5.8 Summary -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A. The samples of English and Japanese Map Task Dialogues -- Appendix B. Conventions in transcripts -- References -- Index
  • 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 -- 1.1 Aims -- 1.2 Referring expressions in discourse -- 1.3 Referring expressions, dialogues, and Centering Theory -- 1.4 Organisation of the book -- Chapter 2. Approaches to referring expressions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Referring expressions and the notion of givenness -- 2.3 Topic entity, thematic structure and discourse segment -- 2.4 Descriptive grammarian's view of 'this', 'that', 'it' -- 2.5 A pragmatic approach to referring expressions -- 2.6 Reference assignment and discourse -- 2.7 A possible hypothesis -- 2.8 A case study of referring expressions in English dialogue data -- 2.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Approaches to deictic expressions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Overview -- 3.3 Spatial deixis -- 3.4 Anaphoric demonstratives: Deictic or anaphoric? -- 3.5 Discourse deictic use -- 3.6 The Givenness Hierarchy revisited -- 3.7 Distribution of deictic expressions: An analysis -- 3.7.1 Japanese Map Task Corpus -- 3.7.2 English Map Task Corpus -- 3.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Data collection -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Aims -- 4.3 Task design -- 4.3.1 The original English and Japanese Map Task Corpus -- 4.3.2 English and Japanese Labelless Map Task Corpus -- 4.4 Subjects -- 4.5 Matching of the data -- 4.6 Possible accessibility of the data -- 4.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Centering and dialogue -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Centering theory -- 5.2.1 Overview -- 5.2.2 Discourse segmentation: The local focus and global focus in discourse -- 5.2.3 Specific questions in dialogic discourse -- 5.3 Methodology of R2: Coding of transition states -- 5.4 Centering and dialogue data -- 5.5 Sample analysis
  • Appendix A --
  • References --
  • 3. Approaches to deictic expressions --
  • 4. Data collection --
  • Appendix B --
  • 5. Centering and dialogue --
  • 1. Introduction --
  • Index
  • Preface and acknowledgements --
  • 8. Referring as a collaborative process in discourse --
  • 2. Approaches to referring expressions --
  • Prelim pages --
  • List of figures --
  • Abbreviations used in glosses --
  • 9. Conclusion --
  • List of tables --
  • 6. Referring expressions in local coherence of discourse --
  • Table of contents --
  • 7. Referring expressions in global coherence of discourse --