Constraints in discourse 2 / edited by Peter Kühnlein, Anton Benz and Candace L. Sidner.

Text is highly structured, and structured at a variety of levels. But what are the units of text, which levels are at stake, and what establishes the structure that binds the units together? This volume, just as the predecessor a spin off of one of the workshops on constraints in discourse, contains...

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Other Authors: Kühnlein, Peter, Benz, Anton, 1965-, Sidner, C. L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 194.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rhetorical structure: an introduction / Peter Kühnlein
  • Clause-internal coherence / Jerry R. Hobbs
  • Optimal interpretation for rhetorical relations / Henk zeevat
  • Modelling discourse relations by topics and implicatures: the elaboration default / Ekatarina Jasinskaja
  • The role of logical and generic document structure in relational discourse analysis / Maja Bärenfänger, Harald Lüngen, Mirco Hilbert & Henning Lobin
  • Obligatory presupposition in discourse / Pascal Amsili & Claire Beyssade
  • Conventionalized speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization / Ann Copestake & Marina Terkourafi
  • Constraints on metalinguistic anaphora / Philippe De Brabanter
  • Appositive relative clauses and their prosodic realization in spoken discourse: a corpus study of phonetic aspects in British English / Cyril Auran & Rudy Loock.