LINGUIST List 12.2847

Tue Nov 13 2001

Books: Semantics/Pragmatics

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1. Neden, Julie (ELS), Semant/Prag: Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue

Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue 
Experimenting with Current Dynamic Theories

Edited by M. Bras, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
Universite Paul Sabatier, France and
L. Vieu, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Universite
Paul Sabatier, France 

Published October 2001 * Hardbound * ISBN 0-08-043943-8 * 260 pages *
Pergamon

http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/2/2/5/0/0/index.htt

USD 86.50 NLG 176 (EUR 79.87) 

This volume addresses current 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 (e.g., subtleties of anaphora and
presupposition, the role of temporal connectives in discourse or the
establishment of common references in dialogue).


Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
'She' 's Character
	Paul Dekker
Exhaustivity and Specificity: A Parallelism between Answers and Pronouns
	Robert van Rooy
Presupposition Triggered by Temporal Connectives
	Frank Schilder
French Adverbial Puis between Temporal Structure and Discourse Structure
	Myriam Bras, Anne Le Draoulec and Laure Vieu
The Meaning of Same in Anaphoric Temporal Adverbials
	Ana Alves and G�mez Txurruka
Spatial Interferences in a Localization Dialogue
	Peter Krause, Uwe Reyle and Michael Schiehlen
Cooperativity in Dialogue
	Nicholas Asher, Joan Busquets and Anne Le Draoulec


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