Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium

Editors

Peter Kühnlein

| University of Bielefeld

Hannes Rieser

| University of Bielefeld

Henk Zeevat

| University of Amsterdam

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The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of dialogue. Other matters still are disputed.

This volume contains papers both of foundational and applied orientation. It is the result of one of a series of specialized Workshops on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue that took place in 2001. One can therefore truly say that it mirrors both the state of the art at the end of the past millennium and research strategies that are pursued at the beginning of the new millennium.

The collected papers cover the range from philosophy of language to computer science, from the analysis of presupposition to investigations into corpora, and touches upon topics like the role of speech acts in dialogue or language specific phenomena. This broad coverage will make the volume valuable for students of dialogue from all fields of expertise.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 114] 2003. xii, 400 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.114

Table of Contents

Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium Peter Kühnlein, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat	vii
Imperatives in dialogue Alex Lascarides and Nicholas Asher	1–24
Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation Jonathan Ginzburg, Ivan A. Sag and Matthew Purver	25–42
An HPSG-based representation model for illocutionary acts in crisis talk Claudia Sassen	43–57
Denial and presupposition Rob van der Sandt	59–77
Between binding and accommodation Jennifer K. Spenader	79–110
Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics Alessandro Capone	111–133
Semantic meaning and four types of speech act Etsuko Oishi	135–147
Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness Marina Terkourafi	149–164
Models of intentions in language William C. Mann	165–178
Context-dependent interpretation and implicit dialogue acts Jörn Kreutel and Colin Matheson	179–192
Notes on analysing context Kerstin Fischer	193–214
A basic system for multimodal robot instruction Alois Knoll	215–228
An information state approach in a multi-modal dialogue system for human-robot conversation Oliver Lemon, Anne Bracy, Alexander Gruenstein and Stanley Peters	229–242
Dialogue understanding in dynamic domains Bernd Ludwig	243–269
An information state update approach to collaborative negotiation Robin Cooper, Stina Ericsson, Staffan Larsson and Ian Lewin	271–286
Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information David Schlangen, Alex Lascarides and Ann Copestake	287–305
On coordinating interpretations — optimality and rational interaction Anton Benz	307–334
Modal particles and the common ground: Meaning and functions of German ja, doch, eben/halt and auch Elena Karagjosova	335–349
(Non-)Temporal concepts conveyed by before, after, and then in dialogue Thora Tenbrink and Frank Schilder	351–378
Name index	379–382
Subject index	383–395

“[...] this collection contributes to research on the semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue and should be of interest to researchers in these fields as well as scholars working on artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and other areas of formal semantics and pragmatics.”

Eric McCready, Aoyama Gakuin University, in Language Vol. 82:3 (2006)

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Pragmatics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2003054591