Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue: Experimenting With Current Dynamic Theories

Bras, Myriam (Editor)/ Vieu, Laure (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0080439438 / ISBN 13: 9780080439433

Published by Emerald Group Pub Ltd, 2001

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1st edition. 250 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue: Experimenting With Current Dynamic Theories
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080439438
• ISBN 13: 9780080439433
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume addresses contemporary 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 (such as subtleties of anaphora and presupposition, the role of temporal connectives in discourse or the establishment of common references in dialogue).