Publications

Publication details [#11956]

Takubo, Yukinori and Satoshi Kinsui. 1997. Discourse Management in Terms of Mental Spaces. Journal of Pragmatics 28 (6) : 741–758. 18 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse organization | mental space | reference, processing of

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that the linguistic expressions and memory interface is a hierarchical database that treats dialogue utterances as operator instructions, as exemplified by Chinese, Japanese and English. Two mental discourse components are described as well as reference fixing in Japanese.