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Referring Expressions in English and Japanese: Patterns of Use in Dialogue Processing

By Etsuko Yoshida

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
2011
ISBN
9027256128, 9789027256126
LCC
P298 .Y67 2011
Google Books ID
6UAfo7tGROQC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
926 kB (947920 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 208
Pages
225\225
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Прагмалингвистика

Description

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 English and Japanese task-based dialogues, and applies and extends theoretical frameworks which attempt to account for local and global discourse coherence. Using a discourse-based integrated approach to anaphora resolution, Yoshida proposes a unified account on the patterns of use of referring expressions. The book will be of interest to discourse analysts, computational linguists, scholars of semantics and pragmatics, and cross-linguistics researchers.

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