Meta Informative Centering In Utterances

Author : André W?odarczyk,Hélène W?odarczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271143

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Meta-informative Centering in Utterances by André W?odarczyk,Hélène W?odarczyk Pdf

The notion of information has nowadays become crucial both in our daily life and in many branches of science and technology. In language studies, this notion was used as a technical term for the first time about at least fifty years ago. It is argued, however, that "Old" and "New", used traditionally for characterising information, refer in fact to the meta-informative status of communicated chunks of information. They provide information about other information. Since subjects and objects, as attention-driven phrases, are also related to aboutness, the presented Meta-Informative Centering (MIC) framework includes predication theory. By applying the MIC theory to their analyses of English, German, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Latin, and Japanese, the authors provide comprehensive explanations of the most puzzling aspects of the pragmatic use of basic universal linguistic categories. It seems clear now that canonical syntactic patterns, their permutations, and diverse transformations do indeed reflect very truly the meta-informative encapsulation of utterances. As a consequence, this book presents new and coherent theoretical solutions as well as their very efficient applications.

Author : Keith Allan,Alessandro Capone,Istvan Kecskes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319434919

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Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use by Keith Allan,Alessandro Capone,Istvan Kecskes Pdf

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics has, from its inception, differentiated itself from neighboring fields in the humanities, especially the disciplines dealing with language and those focusing on the social and anthropological aspects of human behavior, by focusing on the language user in his or her societal environment.This collection of papers continues that emphasis on language use, and pragmatic acts in their context. The editors and contributors share a perspective that essentially considers language as a system for communication and wants to look at language from a societal perspective, and accept the view that acts of interpretation are essentially embedded in culture. In an interdisciplinary approach, some authors explore connections with social theory, in particular sociology or socio-linguistics, some offer a political stance (critical discourse analysis), others explore connections with philosophy and philosophy of language, and several papers address problems in theoretical pragmatics.

Author : Isabel Moskowich
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443835886

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Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future by Isabel Moskowich Pdf

In the first decade of the twenty first century, Corpus Linguistics as a methodology had already proved to be an impeccable one, and is probably the most elaborate way to approach empirical studies on languages. At present this seems to be essential to formulate general theories about most aspects of languages in different stages of their evolution. Corpora and Corpus Linguistics have been present in research for a reasonably long time now. The evolution of the discipline has been assessed by conferences, new publications and all sorts of events related to the field. Therefore, it seems most convenient to offer an outline of the advances made in the past decade as well as to try and make a guess as for what is yet to come. The editors have used their experience to collect a volume that certainly will have something to offer to the scientific community. Their work as compilers of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing has made them familiar with corpus-compilation and the time-consuming tasks it entails. As users of this and other corpora, they can also appreciate the tools modern technology offers researchers and what the possibilities of exploitation are. In this way, the selection of papers contained in this volume address a wide range of scholars interested in the discipline, both corpus compilers and users.

Author : Saina Wuyun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811586668

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Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse by Saina Wuyun Pdf

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language? To do so, it presents a centering theory-based computational approach to discourse analysis concerning Chinese bei passive sentences, disposal ba constructions, ditransitive gei sentences, and locative fang sentences. The book first discusses the use of discourse analysis in the context of bei and ba constructions and then demonstrates how discourse analysis can contribute to the syntactic and semantic studies of these sentences. It also examines the various thematic roles differentiated in these four special sentence patterns, namely agent, recipient, theme/patient, and locative, and reveals the various degrees of discourse accessibility of these thematic roles. Exploring the correlation between centering theory and Chinese discourse, the book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in discourse analysis and Chinese special sentential structures, especially the formal approaches to these issues.

Author : Jörg Zinken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190210724

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Requesting Responsibility by Jörg Zinken Pdf

This book examines requests for action in everyday contexts by analyzing natural video-recorded data of everyday interaction in British English and Polish families. Requests for carrying out little jobs-passing some object or fetching items from the next room -are pervasively relevant in contexts such as preparing and consuming food, caring for and playing with children. Requests therefore provide a useful window onto general qualities of human sociality as well as on aspects of cultural diversity. J rg Zinken describes features of interactional context that people across cultures might be sensitive to in designing a request. In particular, the other person's locally observable commitment to a shared task emerges as a quality of context that systematically enters into the way a speaker builds a request. He then analyses the relationship between diversity across the grammatical resources of languages, and diversity in the action affordances provided by these structures. Focusing on grammatical structures that exist in Polish but not in English (impersonal deontic statements, a certain type of double imperative, and a grammaticalized distinction between perfective and imperfective verbal aspect), the analyses show that language-specific turn formats can index and project social orientations within the on-going interaction in culture-specific ways. By examining social actions at a fine level of grain, the book points a way toward an understanding of cultural diversity that avoids the pitfalls of cultural relativism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Cognitive grammar
ISBN : IND:30000123246021

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Études cognitives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Context by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lise Fontaine,Tom Bartlett,Gerard O'Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107036963

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Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice by Lise Fontaine,Tom Bartlett,Gerard O'Grady Pdf

Bringing together a global team, this stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics.

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Yael Ziv
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789027250711

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Discourse Markers by Andreas H. Jucker,Yael Ziv Pdf

A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Me×ico, in the summer of 1996.

Author : James C. Lester,Rosa Maria Vicari,Fábio Paraguacu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783540301394

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems by James C. Lester,Rosa Maria Vicari,Fábio Paraguacu Pdf

Welcome to the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems! In keeping with the rich tradition of the ITS conferences, ITS 2004 brought together an exciting mix of researchers from all areas of intelligent tutoring systems. A leading international forum for the dissemination of original results in the design, implementation, and evaluation of ITSs, the conference drew researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from artificial intelligence and cognitive science to pedagogy and educational psychology. Beginning with the first ITS conference in 1988, the gathering has developed a reputation as an outstanding venue for AI-based learning environments. Following on the great success of the first meeting, subsequent conferences have been held in 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. The conference has consistently created a vibrant convocation of scientists, developers, and practitioners from all areas of the field. Reflecting the growing international involvement in the field, ITS 2004 was hosted in Brazil. The previous conferences were convened in Canada, the USA, and Europe. We are grateful to the Brazilian ITS community for organizing the first ITS conference in Latin America--in Maceiþ o, Alagoas. With its coconut palm-lined beaches and warm, crystal-clear waters, Maceiþ o, the capital city of the state of Alagoas, is fittingly known as "The Water Paradise." The conference was held at the Ritz Lagoa da Anta Hotel, which is by Lagoa da Anta Beach and close to many of the city's beautiful sights

Author : Jinho Kim,Kyuseok Shim,Longbing Cao,Jae-Gil Lee,Xuemin Lin,Yang-Sae Moon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319575292

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Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining by Jinho Kim,Kyuseok Shim,Longbing Cao,Jae-Gil Lee,Xuemin Lin,Yang-Sae Moon Pdf

This two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017. The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social network and graph mining; privacy-preserving mining and security/risk applications; spatio-temporal and sequential data mining; clustering and anomaly detection; recommender system; feature selection; text and opinion mining; clustering and matrix factorization; dynamic, stream data mining; novel models and algorithms; behavioral data mining; graph clustering and community detection; dimensionality reduction.

Author : Marilyn A. Walker,Aravind Krishna Joshi,Ellen Friedman Prince
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198236875

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Centering Theory in Discourse by Marilyn A. Walker,Aravind Krishna Joshi,Ellen Friedman Prince Pdf

This edited collection of previously unpublished papers focuses on Centering Theory, an account of local discourse structure. Developed in the context of computational linguistics and cognitive science, Centering theory has attracted the attention of an international interdisciplinary audience. As the authors focus on naturally occurring data, they join the general trend towards empiricism in research on computational models of discourse, providing a significant contribution to a fast-moving field.

Author : Rupayan Chakraborty,Meghna Pandharipande,Sunil Kumar Kopparapu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811076749

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Analyzing Emotion in Spontaneous Speech by Rupayan Chakraborty,Meghna Pandharipande,Sunil Kumar Kopparapu Pdf

This book captures the current challenges in automatic recognition of emotion in spontaneous speech and makes an effort to explain, elaborate, and propose possible solutions. Intelligent human–computer interaction (iHCI) systems thrive on several technologies like automatic speech recognition (ASR); speaker identification; language identification; image and video recognition; affect/mood/emotion analysis; and recognition, to name a few. Given the importance of spontaneity in any human–machine conversational speech, reliable recognition of emotion from naturally spoken spontaneous speech is crucial. While emotions, when explicitly demonstrated by an actor, are easy for a machine to recognize, the same is not true in the case of day-to-day, naturally spoken spontaneous speech. The book explores several reasons behind this, but one of the main reasons for this is that people, especially non-actors, do not explicitly demonstrate their emotion when they speak, thus making it difficult for machines to distinguish one emotion from another that is embedded in their spoken speech. This short book, based on some of authors’ previously published books, in the area of audio emotion analysis, identifies the practical challenges in analysing emotions in spontaneous speech and puts forward several possible solutions that can assist in robustly determining the emotions expressed in spontaneous speech.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000068697938

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : E.F.K. Koerner,Aleksander Szwedek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027284556

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Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland by E.F.K. Koerner,Aleksander Szwedek Pdf

Apart from the names of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Mikołaj Kruszewski (1851–1887), and, later, Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895–1978), Polish linguists and Polish linguistics generally have been little known in the West. The first two were mentioned with approval by Saussure in an unpublished paper, and this reference was picked up by Roman Jakobson and others many years later. Kuryłowicz, for his part, made himself well known in the West through his important work as Indo-Europeanist, even Semiticist, and as a general linguist. The present volume is a first attempt to broaden the perspectives on the Polish contribution to linguistics both inside and outside of Poland during the past centuries. Specialists in their respective fields contributed chapters on the origins and development of general linguistics (Z. Wąsik), applied linguistics (F. Grucza), lexicology (T. Piotrowski), dialectology (St. Gogolewski), and onomastics (S. Gala), followed by five chapters presenting the theories of the arguably most remarkable Polish linguistic thinkers, from Baudouin de Courtenay (A. Adamska-Sałaciak), Kruszewski (F. M. Berezin), and Kuryłowicz (W. Smoczyński) to Mikołaj Rudnicki (1881–1978) and Ludwik Zabrocki (1907–1977) (both written by J. Bańczerowski). Detailed individual bibliographies, a full index of names (with life dates of Polish linguists from the Renaissance to the present day), and a thorough index of subjects and terms make this volume an important reference tool for anyone wishing to acquaint himself with the rich heritage of Polish linguistic thought.