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1.1 Previous approaches to pragmatics and discourse |
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2 | (3) |
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5 | (3) |
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1.3 Approaches to corpus-/computer-based pragmatics |
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8 | (6) |
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14 | (1) |
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1.5 Conventions used in this book |
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15 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Computer-based data in pragmatics |
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17 | (40) |
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2.1 Linguistic corpora and pragmatics |
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17 | (3) |
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2.2 Issues and standards in text representation and annotation |
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20 | (19) |
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2.2.1 General computer-based representation |
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27 | (7) |
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2.2.2 Text vs. meta-information |
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34 | (1) |
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2.2.3 General linguistic annotation |
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35 | (4) |
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2.3 Problems and specifics in dealing with spoken language transcription |
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39 | (18) |
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2.3.1 Issues concerning orthographic representation |
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39 | (5) |
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2.3.2 Issues concerning prosody |
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44 | (3) |
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2.3.3 Issues concerning segmental and other features |
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47 | (5) |
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2.3.4 Issues concerning sequential integrity |
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52 | (2) |
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2.3.5 Issues concerning multi-modality |
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54 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Data, tools and resources |
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57 | (32) |
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3.1 Corpus data used in the research |
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57 | (5) |
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3.1.1 The SPAADIA Trainline Corpus |
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57 | (1) |
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3.1.2 The selection from Trains 93 |
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58 | (1) |
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3.1.3 The selection from the Switchboard Annotated Dialogue Corpus |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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3.2 The DART implementation and its use in handling dialogue data |
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62 | (7) |
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3.2.1 The DART functionality |
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63 | (4) |
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3.2.2 The DART XML format |
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67 | (2) |
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3.3 Morpho-syntactic resources required for pragmatic analysis |
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69 | (20) |
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3.3.1 The generic lexicon concept |
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72 | (6) |
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78 | (5) |
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3.3.3 Morphology and morpho-syntax |
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83 | (1) |
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3.3.4 `Synthesising' domain-specific lexica |
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84 | (5) |
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Chapter 4 The syntax of spoken language units |
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89 | (66) |
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4.1 Sentence vs. syntactic types (C-Units) |
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90 | (6) |
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4.2 Units of analysis and frequency norming for pragmatic purposes |
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96 | (1) |
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4.3 Unit types and basic pragmatic functions |
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97 | (58) |
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100 | (8) |
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108 | (9) |
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117 | (17) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (4) |
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4.3.6 Yes/no- and alternative questions |
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138 | (3) |
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141 | (5) |
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146 | (3) |
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4.3.9 Fragments and exclamatives |
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149 | (6) |
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Chapter 5 Semantics and semantico-pragmatics |
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155 | (32) |
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5.1 The DAMSL annotation scheme |
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156 | (6) |
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162 | (15) |
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165 | (1) |
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5.2.2 Interactional modes |
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166 | (5) |
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5.2.3 Point-of-view modes |
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171 | (3) |
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5.2.4 Volition and personal stance modes |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (1) |
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5.2.6 Syntax-indicating modes |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (10) |
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179 | (5) |
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5.3.2 Domain-specific topics |
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184 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 The annotation process |
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187 | (26) |
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6.1 Issues concerning the general processing of spoken dialogues |
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187 | (7) |
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6.1.1 Pre-processing -- manual and automated unit determination |
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187 | (3) |
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6.1.2 Fillers, pauses, backchannels, overlap, etc |
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190 | (2) |
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6.1.3 Handling initial connectors, prepositions and adverbs |
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192 | (1) |
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6.1.4 Dealing with disfluent starts |
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193 | (1) |
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6.1.5 Parsing and chunking for syntactic purposes |
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193 | (1) |
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6.2 Identifying and annotating the individual unit types automatically |
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194 | (11) |
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6.2.1 Splitting off and annotating shorter units |
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194 | (2) |
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6.2.2 Tagging wh-questions |
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196 | (3) |
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6.2.3 Tagging yes/no-questions |
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199 | (2) |
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6.2.4 Tagging fragments, imperatives and declaratives |
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201 | (4) |
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6.3 Levels above the C-unit |
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205 | (3) |
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6.3.1 Answers and other responses |
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205 | (2) |
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207 | (1) |
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6.4 Identifying topics and modes |
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208 | (1) |
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6.5 Inferencing and determining or correcting speech acts |
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209 | (4) |
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Chapter 7 Speech acts: Types, functions, and distributions across the corpora |
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213 | (64) |
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7.1 Information-seeking speech acts |
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214 | (6) |
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7.2 (Non-)Cohesive speech acts |
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220 | (11) |
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7.3 Information-providing and referring speech acts |
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231 | (19) |
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7.4 Negotiative speech acts |
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250 | (6) |
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7.5 Suggesting or commitment-indicating speech acts |
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256 | (5) |
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7.6 Evaluating or attitudinal speech acts |
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261 | (5) |
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7.7 Reinforcing speech acts |
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266 | (3) |
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7.8 Social, conventionalised speech acts |
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269 | (5) |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (4) |
Appendix A The DART speech-act taxonomy (version 2.0) |
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281 | (4) |
References |
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285 | (8) |
Index |
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